Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Particularly in the ghetto, the gang gives a kid the structured life he has never had at home or anywhere else. The peer pressure to enlist is almost irresistible. Rico, 17, joined a Puerto Rican gang in Chicago for "protection, man, protection. I was a skinny little kid, and I was tired of having hassles. You don't last long if you don't belong to a club. You can always count on having someone stand up for you." A 14-year-old boy who committed frequent robberies in Central Falls, R.I., and once smashed 350 windowpanes...
...whole few of these pre-professional students seriously doubted that they would become one of these three types of professionals. Few sought advice from career services or were bothered by peer pressures. Most of them had a rather brief period of career decision-making, followed by an almost boundless four years of determination to realize that goal...
...chats with editors, writers and executives. Eric Sidler, a partner in the Charles Barker agency of Frankfurt, summed up the value of these gatherings in a discussion of international advertising styles: "The British have great humor and creativity, the Germans do terrific research, Swiss and Italian design is without peer. What U.S. advertising does best is bring everything together...
...lush. Whether PBS intended it or not, the two series are ideal companions. Trollope wrote of power struggles in Parliament and of intrigue under the topiary at the country house of the Duke of Omnium. In Hard Times Dickens explained what life was like for those who could only peer through the gates-and how much misery it cost to maintain those ducal shrubs in such well-shaved elegance...
Recombination research must be continued, but science has to be willing to allow the public to peer over its shoulder every step...