Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's all kinds of research which shows that peer review and secret meetings and very unique procedures tend to maintain the status quo," she says...
...Peer review is very biased against minorities and Harvard is very committed to it's present tenure process, but most people on the outside think that the process should be much less secretive," she adds...
...Roger Brown was a model scholar, a writer virutally without peer in the discipline and a wonderful teacher and mentor," said Professor of Psychology Daniel L. Schacter. "The Department of Psychology will miss him deeply, as will the entire field to which he made such profound contributions...
...Grove 17 years ago while working at the Wall Street Journal. The Journal's management was proud of its resistance to technology in those days, so reporters and editors worked with manual typewriters, carbon paper and No. 2 pencils. As we were walking through the newsroom, Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized...
...high risks of seemingly safe "sexual activity" were exhibited in the wake of the recent fiasco at Stanford University in which five different brands of faulty condoms were recalled after being distributed freely to the student body by the campus Student Health Peer Resource Center. The fact that even married couples could theoretically have been affected by the faulty condoms misses the point of the argument for pre-marital sexual abstinence: While accidental and unintended pregnancies occur in marriages all the time, those children are usually brought into the world with significant advantages (such as a stable environment in which...