Word: peered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more politically sophisticated manner, Queen Latifah (Dana Owens) has staked out a high ground in rap. "Guys have this macho thing where they always have to be tough -- it's peer pressure, " she says. "I'm trying to show people another point of view." Latifah, an electrifying performer who favors jodhpurs and large hats, delivers a spiritual message that rises above the petty issues in the war of the sexes. In Ladies First she raps about optimism and pride: "We are the ones to give birth/ To the new generation of prophets...
...Senior Gift campaign is one of the most coercive fundraising efforts I have ever seen. The entire campaign is designed to play on peer pressure and our sense of obligation to our friends in the last months of college...
...cast. Tarpon fishing is stalking. You must see the fish and cast to it. Hence its peculiar excitement, which far exceeds trout or even salmon fishing. "Look, look, out there, about a hundred feet, in the white spot, a big one, he's coming, ooh, thrreee of them!" You peer and scan and peer again, and see nothing. Then you do: a dark gray bar under the green ripples, ghosting along...
...staff accurately points out many of the University's failings that Neil L. Rudenstine will have to address as president. Certainly, Harvard's tenure record is disgraceful, falling far short of the systems at its peer insitutions in minority and women faculty hiring. And as the University prepares to launch a massive fundraising campaign, it would do well to guard against the excessive influence of its donors. It would do even better to open its books to public scrutiny...
Each atrocity has its own circumstances, its own atmosphere and triggers, its tribal antipathies and peer-group expectations. It is interesting that the one police officer who expressed some objection during the Los Angeles beating was a woman -- a member of the California highway patrol, not the L.A.P.D. She was not entirely part of the men's club that was doing the pounding...