Word: peering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That day came two years ago, when the Pentagon decided it needed a new version of the old spy plane. It would incorporate the latest "stealth" features as well as updated electronic snooping capability that can peer sideways over borders and transmit data-including TV-type pictures-directly back to military commanders on the ground. Twenty-five TR-ls will be built at a cost of $550 million. Thanks to Johnson's premonition, the bill will be a tidy $10 million less than it might have been had he not squirreled away those old tools...
...sexism: the low expectations of parents and teachers are said to produce a 'reverse Pygmalion effect." According to Educator Elizabeth Fennema and Psychologist Julia Sherman, in an article on the subject, "Sexual stereotyping of mathematics as a male domain operates through a myriad of subtle influences from peer to parent and within the girl herself...
...English courts. Off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has done right by The Winslow Boy, which first appeared on Broadway in 1947. The "well-made play" was much in vogue at that time, and in the carpentry of artifice, Britain's Sir Terence Rattigan probably had no peer...
During the open hearing, Yim admitted to entering the fraternity and said his action was "a mistake I deeply regret." The decision to go to Bones Gates was a "spur of the moment decision," prompted by peer pressure, he added...
...private bouts with their respective neuroses and psychoses) is at the core of Equus, giving the drama its chess-match tension as two fierce wills clash and two magnificent intellects trick and torment the vulnerable souls possessing them. Sadism and compassion feed on each other as Dysart and Alan peer, with frightening perception, into one another's heart of darkness, at once attracted and repelled by what they...