Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make-believe world of the penny arcade, pinball was once a game without peer. But pinball, alas, lost some of its cachet in high-speed modern life-until 18 months ago when there appeared a new breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race car. Besides giving birth to a nationwide fad, the games have also revived the sagging coin-game industry, boosting its revenues and ushering in a new era of cutthroat competition...
...radioed at precisely 8:31 a.m. on that fateful Sunday by Volcano Expert David Johnston, 30, who had climbed to a monitoring site five miles from Washington State's Mount St. Helens in the snow-capped Cascade Range, 40 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. He wanted to peer through binoculars at an ominous bulge building up below the crater, which had been rumbling and steaming for eight weeks, and report his observations to the U.S. Geological Survey center in Vancouver, Wash...
...listenings. (Fortunately, these are not hard to come by. The single is getting heavy air play and is No. 13 on the charts; the album is nestling comfortably at No. 8.) Lawyers in love may simply be liars who passed the bar exam, but Browne has no current musical peer at describing how mendacity of the heart can lead both to corrosion of the soul and corruption of the body politic...
These trends, administrators said, justify continued attempts to reduce student drinking, especially through peer-counseling. For the most part, officials said, such efforts prove more successful than programs such as campus drinking-awareness fairs, sponsored at numerous colleges in recent years...
Chronic offenders or potential abusers can work to control their impulses through the peer support of groups like Parents Anonymous, patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous. Indeed, some experts say that incest, like alcohol and drugs, is mood altering, since it can provide a momentary escape from feelings of loneliness or inadequacy. "Sexual offenders and chemical dependents have the same thinking patterns," says Richard Seely, director of the Intensive Treatment Program for Sexual Aggressives at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter. "They get highs each step...