Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peer Praise...
...which Henrik Ibsen is the father, is chiefly concerned with the realistic portrayal of human experience. The viewer must be able to establish a rapport with the characters and their actions. Ibsen himself was so concerned with this point that after the publication of his first successful work, Peer Gynt, he forsook verse for prose, which he identified as more characteristic of actual experience...
...personally offended by the implication that my desire to participate in AWARE labels me a minority activist "worked up over trifles." I have had the benefit of a private education at an international school, quite possibly an ideal environment in which to grow, with a world community as my peer group. I have also been harrassed by police, eyed suspiciously by elder members of society, and have been engaged in fistfights with less openminded youths over the multicultural company that I kept...
...mounted cameras. Less than 10 minutes after a Weasel touches down, its film is rushed into one of a cluster of van-size steel boxes, bolted together at the edge of a runway, that serve as a photo intelligence center. Specialists wearing white gloves bend over light tables and peer through loupes to examine miles of black-and-white film as it rolls by. Most of the film is a dead gray wash -- desert sand -- but occasionally a white speck or a cluster of dark dots appears...
Opponents, however, contend that major studies today receive intense independent scrutiny while they are under way, and thus the journal peer- review system may not be as necessary as before. Embargoing medical news until publication, they say, may actually put patients in greater jeopardy than allowing information to be released quickly. Though journal editors insist that the review process can be speeded up for urgent papers, they concede that sometimes an important report has gone unrecognized. For example, Yale University researchers sent a paper to the N.E.J.M. in October 1989 noting that patients with spinal-cord injuries who were treated...