Word: peers
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...computer bulletin board network also will be set up to operate 24 hours a day to keep UTEP graduates in contact with Cambridge. Weekend conferences will be held at Harvard once a term during the first year to provide peer support and to maintain teaching skills, Droge says...
...behind." In fact, it seems that Mies' example, brilliant in itself, provoked a prolonged architectural adolescence, a period when a stylistic conformism was enforced. To be modern, a building was obliged to wear what Critic Reyner Banham calls the "teenage uniform" of the International Style. That sort of architectural peer pressure is gone. The vital, messy pluralism now prevalent may not make for neat history, but it might produce better cities...
...added, however, that other factors, such as role models, peer pressure and availability of drugs, can also influence someone's decision to drink, smoke and take illegal drugs...
THERE IS ANOTHER side of the coin, so to speak, as those institutions which do not fare well in the merit review process naturally prefer Congress' direct grant scheme. Charles Coffin, director of government relations at Northeastern University, voices the complaint: "Frankly, for too long peer review has been a pipeline for the haves to continue to have and the have-nots to be shunted aside." Northeastern received a grant in the same bill as Cornell...
Cornell's action is only the first step. Other universities must stand firmly behind the peer-review process if quality scientific research and the merit basis of the funding system is to be preserved...