Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never before had the fighting been this close. Out at sea Israeli gunboats train their sights on the coastline. Abu Said and I peer around a wall to watch Israeli jets drop cluster bombs on Ramlet al Baida. As each falls on the boulevard, there is a shower of small explosions. As the bombardment grows we decide to leave, making our way past the guerrillas who are hidden in the concrete corridors and recesses of the buildings, stumbling over them in the dark, making foolish excuses in English and Arabic...
After that, it was all but inevitable that Reagan would include a visit to Berlin, to peer over the 10-ft. masonry wall that separates the Eastern and Western sectors of that city. Reagan's trip may suffer by a comparison: 19 years ago, John Kennedy mesmerized a crowd of 150,000 with his famed "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. This time, by contrast, police are braced for anti-American rallies, including a "welcoming concert" for Reagan of blaring sirens by leftist peace protesters...
...fact, all the techniques of modern totalitarianism--are well developed in the China, we are told. This government control is, oddly enough, more psychological than physical. Constant monitoring by neighborhood groups and workplace authorities usually make overt police and military brutality unnecessary. "The constant exposure to publilc scrutiny and peer pressure makes life in China like living in an army barrack," Butterfield writes...
...Churches and the American Jewish Congress--rightly believe that, religion does not need, and should not have, the sponsorship or support of the government." Voluntary and nonsectarian in name only, codes allowing group prayer inevitably supported entrenched religions at the expense of less widespread ones. And because of the peer pressure that's probably unavoidable in school settings, students who had no desire to pray often found themselves compelled to join in--effectively denying their right not to exercise their religious preferences...
...direction may be admirably emphatic, but some humanists are fearful that if he defines the humanities too narrowly, important groups in the U.S. may be excluded. Says Predecessor Duffey: "Political pressures heave up against this agency all the time. But if you abandon the effort to maintain a credible peer review system, then you're turning the NEH into a kind of fiefdom." Bennett categorically rejects any implication that he has been asked to dismantle programs designed by and for traditionally liberal constituencies. He insists: "I have not had any suggestions from the White House, to say nothing...