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Word: peers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected me to go on a mission since birth, and of course that was one of the reasons I started thinking about it." Beck says. "It's hard to say, but I think even if I hadn't gotten more deeply involved I would have done a mission." Peer and parental presure in favor of missions are great among Mormon communities...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Spreading the Faith | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

...under things for the parents to peruse. And, in the case of seduction, underwear will probably prove the source of considerable stress and depression. A woman who wakes to find that her paramour wears Caldor generics could experience severe self-doubt and fear of ostracism from her peer group. Psychotherapists should take note...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

More accurate than elegant, McClintick's tinsel raker has attracted the general public as well as the corporate elite and has climbed onto the bestseller lists. Surprisingly, it does not peer in Bel Air bedrooms. Instead, it focuses on the boardrooms of East Coast conglomerates. There, his minimoguls weep, curse and whisper. The reason? Actor Cliff Robertson had informed authorities that a $10,000 check was forged by Begelman. Why, insiders wondered, had the six-figure-salaried studio chief, a former talent agent and model for the ruthless Lyon Burke in Valley of the Dolls, not merely borrowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Begelgate | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...make passengers in a car with a drunk driver guilty of a misdemeanor, creating more peer pressure to prevent drunks from getting into their cars...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Time to Get Mad | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

...been followed by an economic imperative: earning her way, single or married. More than half of all American women ? indeed, more than half the U.S. married mothers ? are in the labor force. There a woman must collaborate and compete with men, as other men do, as a peer. She is dressing and shaping her body to fit the new fashion of equality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ideal Of Beauty | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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