Word: peers
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Usually, Congress and the White House only set a general funding level and a peer review group composed of scientists in the field then recommends where a federal science project should be awarded. However, with the firm Schlossberg-Cassidy doing the lobbying. Columbia and Catholic convinced legislators to include in the 1984 budget, projects earmarked specifically for them, thus by passing the peer group when normally evaluates who should receive funds. By turning the distribution of federal science subsidies into a pork barrel. Columbia and Catholic have threatened to set a worn some precedent that would remove qualified scientific boards...
...that concern could be warranted if other colleges and universities take Columbia and Catholic's cue. According to one congressional staffer familiar with science and technology issues. "The two universities unprecedented action could undermine the whole process of peer review...
...come up with some jokes for his monologue. As he rehearses the material for his visitor, it becomes ever clearer that although the rapid-fire rhythm once clocked at 44 jokes in four minutes has slowed, the style endures. Hope is still the All-American wisecracker. His only living peer among comedians, George Burns, 87, found himself a new guise: the worldly-wise old geezer. Hope does not change: he leads with his chin and the little golf swing he taught Johnny Carson and lives off his one-liners...
...often been at the heart of his Shakespearean performances. His Romeo (1935) clambered up to his fair lady's balcony in record time; his Hamlet (1947) leaped from a 14-ft. balcony to wrestle with Laertes; his Coriolanus (1959) executed a horrendous, death-daring fall. Inside this theatrical peer, the spirit of a Douglas Fairbanks was always bounding...
...administration prides itself on the number of counselors and academic advisers available to freshmen. Besides undergraduate "peer counselors," who form the bulk of the freshman advisory system, there are faculty advisers and in some cases minority peer counselors...