Word: peers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mission, the instruments will be studying such exotica as quasars, black holes and globular clusters, but for a while during the days that the five international probes encounter the comet, all of Columbia's eyes will be on Halley's. One of the Astro-1 telescopes will peer at very short wavelength light to see if it can detect such elements as helium, neon and argon, which would reveal something about what temperatures were like at the time the solar system formed. If neon were detected, for example, scientists would have to lower their estimates of the temperature at which...
...name was Aniello Dellacroce, which in Italian means "little lamb of the cross," and he took pleasure in killing people. "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death," a federal agent once said of the Mafia chieftain. As underboss of the Gambino clan, the most powerful of New York's five families, he was a member and chief enforcer of "the Commission," the 11-member council that reputedly oversees organized crime around the U.S. Occasionally disguised as a priest under the alias of Father O'Neill, a play...
...meets with a peer supervisor or tutor from the Bureau a few times a week. She says the Bureau has helped her regain her confidence and improve her academic performance...
...staff also includes paid undergraduate peer tutors who work part time assisting students in their particular areas of difficulty...
...Bureau is "still the only office on campus that has a central listing of undergraduates that stand ready to help peers with academic work," Davis says. Last year, 359 students used the Bureau's peer tutoring services alone. The undergraduate tutors, known as Tutor Award Supervisors, are nominated by faculty members. They are closely supervised by the Bureau staff, Davis says. An additional corps of peer tutors remains on call...