Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Working-Class Students at Harvard organization also plans to offer peer counseling, tutoring and help with financial aid forms. The program is interviewing students to place them in summer jobs in their hometowns that will benefit their community...
There was little doubt which peer group he valued more. To Snow, the nuclear physicists were, in fact, artists, opening the universe like a flower. Snow praises his inspired scientists for being "morally admirable" as well. After citing their "courage, truth-telling, kindness," he rather astonishingly asserts that "on the whole scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us." For Snow the agonizing irony is that these saintly men-Rutherford, "bored" by money; Bohr, "simply and genuinely kind"; Einstein, not only looking but be having like an Old Testament prophet-should end up being even indirectly responsible...
...Recent events have focused attention on deficiencies in the process by which letters of reference were written regarding Dr. Arif Hussain. We acknowledge these deficiencies and deeply regret them. We also regret that public confidence concerning professional peer review has been diminished," Dr. William Hassan Jr., acting president of BWH, said in a two-paragraph statement on behalf of the hospital...
Allison and Carnesdale did not attempt in the report to provide concrete solutions for the current problems facing the U.S. atomic energy program, but criticized the nature of the controversy itself, stating. "We must begin to peer beyond the confines of the current debate to more fundamental changes in the governance of nuclear power...
Whether the program will have the hoped-for impact remains to be seen. Get High on Yourself begins with a belief that youths take drugs mostly out of boredom and peer pressure, that there is nothing particularly seductive or pleasurable about the drugs themselves. Through decades, doctors, social workers and legislators have learned that the drug problem is complex and deeply rooted. Even Judge Broderick sounded as much wistful as hopeful when he urged Evans to seek "a breakthrough where others have failed." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Martha Smilgis/Los Angeles