Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children interviewed for Steinberg's study came from diverse socio-economic and racial backgrounds, but experienced similar feelings of peer pressure which discouraged them from their studies...
...must transform reform efforts from widening opportunities to increasing parental and peer involvement," Steinberg said...
...varying pronunciations of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Alderaan. The invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself with the majesty of a Jedi knight and an acting peer. The climactic dogfight, copied in a quillion arcade games, has thrust and logic; it's the clearest, most potent narrative section of the movie...
Climbing the soon-to-be-carpeted fire-escape staircases to the third floor, the dark rooms are illuminated by "home-plate" shaped windows which peer towards the ivory towers of Dunster and Lowell...
...think parental control is perhaps not the deciding factor for teenagers. They are so much more influenced by their peer group. I do not present myself as a person who has been able to stop all my children from getting into trouble with drugs. I tried very hard...