This season, the first obstacle in what has been a wacky tournament is a team as iron willed as Michigan State.
His first obstacle, in 1964, had been Senator Barry Goldwater, the soul of the 1964 Republican Convention.
But it is too late for _Himal, _whose regulatory obstacles in Nepal have become, Dixit told me, "too deep to be sorted out".
"It was this huge obstacle in terms of having to traverse Lower Manhattan," said Iris Weinshall, the city transportation commissioner.
Dan Becker, an environmental lobbyist who has spent 30 years trying to force Detroit to build cleaner and more fuel-efficient cars, said his single biggest obstacle in that time had been Mr. Dingell.
As for Purchase and Hunter, the principal obstacle in their heat had appeared to be New Zealand.
APC, from many considered as an obstacle in the beginning, has not been lived as such in the end.
Recently, antiprion antibodies capable of crossing the blood-brain-barrier and targeting cytosolic prion protein (an otherwise major obstacle in prion therapeutics) have been described.
"I think he's raising a question as to whether or not tenure has become an obstacle in making sure we have the best possible teachers in our classrooms," Mr. Coles said.
The sport, developed by David Belle after experiences of military obstacle courses, has steadily grown in popularity in Australia and elsewhere in recent years.
