Indeed, barriers to exit sometimes seem greater than barriers to entry in the European car industry.

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With these relationships will come immense knowledge about customer preferences and tremendous barriers to exit.

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The barriers to exit are now even more potent barriers to entry.

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To keep our leaders honest we need to constantly challenge that power, work to break entrenched power cliques, and demolish barriers to entry and exit in our political system.

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Inside the club, metal barriers meant to organize the lines of people entering and leaving became traps, corralling desperate patrons within yards of the exit.

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