Word: peered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this previously undisturbed land. Gorillas stare and scream at us, and sometimes charge, but almost never run away. Colobus and cercopithecus monkeys crane their necks to eye us from high tree branches. Gloriously fat wild pigs, elsewhere the favorite game of hunters, look up from their rooting and peer at us calmly through the low brush for several minutes before moving off toward new forage...
...organize their life. In a group session, for instance, participants are asked to make a pie chart of a typical day. How big a slice does sleep get? Work? Television? Many schizophrenics are accustomed to sleeping 16 hours a day. To enforce normal habits, Burnett often uses peer pressure. When new arrivals realize that other patients in the group have cut their sleep time to eight hours, she says, "a light goes on." The technique has also worked to convince an unkempt patient of the need for regular showers...
There were twelve of us--fewer males than females, a rarity among MIT peer groups--and we lived in a dorm called Next House. We procrastinated our problem sets by playing with Jessica's Play-Doh, Megan's Nerf fencing set and Kevin's keyboard. We ate dinner together at six every evening. We watched "Say Anything" over and over, just because Andrea liked it. We even staged our own formal, because Next House didn't have...
Loneliness, peer pressure and the simple desire to "rack up some experience" are reasons why people resort to hook ups, according to Saalfield...
...student-faculty-administration task force suggested this year, students should be included on Peer Dispute Subcommittees created by the Ad Board to investigate all complaints of misconduct. Put simply, the students who live in this community have a right to help decide verdicts in the disciplinary complaints brought against their peers...