Word: peering
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Doubts like these were also raised by the scientific experts. In January 1994, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported that the process was probably inappropriate for the kind of waste at most nuclear weapons sites. By late 1995, a technical peer-review panel said the department should cease funding Molten Metal at the end of the fiscal year. Another Energy Department panel concluded last December that Haney's technology poses environmental and safety risks and might not be cost-effective. The company disputes this, insisting its bath method is both technically sound and marketable...
...notes that, "Arguing for our old fashioned calendar, out of harmony with nearly every other peer institution in the country, we have used the benefits of the reading period as arguments for the status...
According to the introduction to the Guide, its aim is "to help students make the most of their academic experience by granting them ready access to their peer's advice...
...quite available as well and there was much discussion about "free love," communal living, black separatist states and even revisiting the "back to Africa" vision of Paul Cuffe and Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I seemed to focus on being sure that I was making my own and not peer-pressured decisions about who I wanted...
...visual arts, where taste was generally conservative. In art, people wanted visible links to the past, to established traditions that would redress the ebullient rawness of their culture. Hence the fierce objections they raised against their own more inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart of American life." No American painter worked harder to make the human clay palpable and expose it to scrutiny. He identified with scientists, many of whom he knew, and in a portrait of a surgeon, he produced what many regard as America's greatest 19th century painting...