Word: peers
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...that the University of California at Berkeley risked becoming the nation's first university to lose federal contracts in a dispute over affirmative action. Under attack in Georgia, as well as California, was one of the academic world's most sacred traditions, the deep confidentiality that shrouds "peer review," the free-spirited appraisal of faculty members up for tenure...
...marked contrast to Dinnan's defiance and the support he got from his university, the confrontation between the University of California at Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Labor began with compliance. In 1978 Berkeley administrators allowed federal investigators to see confidential peer-review documents regarding women. But several weeks later, when Labor Department agents asked to photocopy 466 of the documents and send them to Washington as part of a permanent affirmative-action file, Berkeley balked. Once they became Government documents, administrators reasoned, the Freedom of Information Act would allow third parties to gain access to them...
Bryant serves similar notice before each game. He leads his team in a street-clothes tour of the stadium before retiring to the locker room. Following their coach's example, the players peer at the sun, test the wind, check the footing on the field. The message to rivals is clear: Alabama is checking things out; Alabama will be ready...
...graduate of Woodside High School in California, Poole was vice president of the student body, a peer counselor, winner of a writing award from the National Council of English Teachers and queen of her senior prom...
...becomes apparent that the barometer for attitudinal change vis-a-vis women in Nicaragua is the effectiveness of propaganda. The Nicaraguan lesson is that perhaps the only way to overcome sexism is by intense political indoctrination and enforced peer pressure. Time will tell if Nicaragua will succeed in changing social attitudes and integrating women into all sectors of Nicaraguan society...