Word: peered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saying his speech was a chance to "complain about the complainers," Dershowitz suggested structured ethics rules, a court of corrections and peer discipline as ways to improve the profession...
What's important is that there are homosexual youth, and their problems are as much of a family issue as alcohol use or peer pressure. Other strips have shied away from such controversial issues. In discussing previous topics as anorexia and teen-age smoking. Lynn Johnston has proven herself a tactful, well-informed writer, and I can think of no one better to address this issue. If, indeed, the propagandizing effect of this comic strip is to be protested, remember that groups opposed to gay rights haven't ever offered to do anything but condemn the good intentions of others...
...upcoming TV ads, nerdish lab hounds, supposedly employed by the brewers at Miller, confront button-down corporate types, promoting the "drinkability" of their latest product. With unmistakable shyness they unveil . . . Miller Clear, the new beer that's as clear as water. As the stunned execs peer through a lucid flagon, so amazed that the hair on one turns white, an announcer proclaims, "To make a truly great beer-drinking beer, we had to do just one little thing" -- an innovation by that point transparently obvious...
...those active in civil rights and ethnic groups, including people from film, the performing arts and popular culture. And the Office of Race Relations responded readily to complaints about racial harassment and insensitivity, raising the level of student awareness of such matters. The office pioneered in the development of peer and house-based programs that will provide guidance for the future...
...with him. Then he brought his friends over and said she had to have sex with them too. She didn't want to, but she figured maybe this is what you have to do to be popular in high school." So the girl submitted, recalls Cowger, 17, a peer counselor at the high school in Lakewood, California. She sympathized with the younger girl's dilemma: "These were the popular guys...