Word: peered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible because this college does so little to support students who are marginal," said Alex H. Cho '96, a member of the Asian American Association and resident of Adams House. "You have no support commensurate to peer institutions like Princeton and Yale...
...also wanted to comment on the role of radical student actions in struggles such as the ongoing one here for comparative race and ethnic studies," the students wrote. "Unfortunately, the vast preponderance of efforts for comparative race and ethnic studies we know of at peer institutions...have required such actions to push their respective administrations to make funds available...
Already storm chasers like Davies-Jones have acquired a deeper understanding of the spectacular springtime storms that produce the most violent tornadoes. They have played a crucial role in developing a new type of radar that can peer through the darkest clouds and detect areas of rapid rotation as much as half an hour before a twister touches down. And now--thanks to an unprecedented data-gathering effort known as VORTEX (short for Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment)--these daredevils of meteorology are beginning to provide fresh insight into the long-standing mystery of what...
...Some people were literally beaten up for bringing books home by peers, and in many cases had to resist extreme peer pressure that would encourage people not to study," he says...
...deliberately orchestrated campaign of extermination devised by political leaders and executed by hired gangs and local authorities. Instead of soldiers killing soldiers, civilians murdering civilians was the main act of the war. Pero Skopljak was one of that sort too, a Bosnian Croat who apparently succumbed to authority--or peer pressure or the hysteria of the moment--to enforce Croatian dominance over his neighbors...