Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the hockey team, including the five freshmen, signed a statement contesting the Daily reports, calling them "grossly exaggerated." The statement said peer pressure, not physical force, was used to encourage the freshmen to drink heavily, and that the intent had not been to make students sick...
Running ahead of his party as usual, Schmidt, 61, had a personal approval rating of 60% going into the election. His image was that of effective head of government, perhaps without peer, and renowned world statesman. No matter that he is reserved, even chilly. West German voters like some distance in their leaders, along with stability, firmness and caution. His government, both at home and abroad, Schmidt pledged, would stay "calculable, predictable and balanced...
University officials signed a consent decree a day before they would have lost $25 million in Federal contracts for failure to release faculty peer review documents at all nine campuses of the university...
...program itself ran smoothly, it was never an easy summer. The community division which the counselors discovered on Day One never abated. Codman park kids beat up Washington kids and vice versa; at least ten of the original 45 children dropped out midway through the program because of peer pressure...
Already, many Berkeley departments warn faculty members when sending out requests for peer-review letters that the information requested in confidence may eventually be divulged-as a result of Government actions. One department chairman recalls that eight of ten people asked to write appraisals of one recent tenure candidate did not reply. What troubles professors and department heads is that the reluctance of faculty members to make appraisals now seems strongest in the cases of the weakest-and potentially most litigious-tenure candidates...