Word: peering
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...goal of the Society of Fellows is "to educate a new generation of area specialists and people in international studies and provide in international studies and provide a peer group for them," Rosovsky said...
Instead, Mexico has enjoyed relative economic success which has allowed the government to spend away many of the nation's incipient social tensions, as well as perpetuating a stable political system and system of one-party rule that is without peer in the Hispanic world...
Within two weeks we should have reached some sort of decision on the social clubs and can turn our attention to other issues, including those relating to peer sexual harassment, a College non-discrimination clause that protects gay people, and student-faculty contact. Perhaps Mr. Patullo (who was director of Harvard's Center for Behavioral Sciences) would like to contribute to those endeavors rather that seeking justifications for homophobia and sexism. Jake Stevens...
...Government professors are all reluctant to peer into the crystal ball and predict just how many appointment Reagan will get to make, but it doesn't take an actuarial table to realize that the ideological balance of power in the Court is at stake. Of the nine justices five-Blackmun, Brennan Burger, Marshall and Powell-are 75 years or older and of these, everyone except Burger comes form the moderate and liberal faction of the court. Should the President get to make two appointments, a reasonable estimate, the Court's teeem drift to the right could become a stampede...
Much of the motivation for abortion arises from the social stigma attached to unmarried pregnant women, especially peer pressure-prone teenagers. If those women were treated with concern and respect instead of being regarded as sinners, perhaps they would not be nearly as willing to have abortions...