Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotline, answering a few calls themselves when they begin to feel competent, and sit in on regular shifts until they are ready to "anchor" one themselves. Once full-fledged Placers, they continue to meet weekly in supervision groups to discuss problems that have arisen in counselling and to provide peer support. It can get lonely on an overnight shift, and it's hard to maintain your own emotional well-being and balance when you're constantly talking to people contemplating suicide or having a bad trip...
...will take some doing. The Steelers, Art Rooney Jr. said last week, "are like the great Yankee teams used to be. The peer pressure is very strong. Just putting on the uniform motivates a player to perform beyond his potential." At week's end, the Steelers were 11-point favorites to keep right on winning...
...onward, the decade was bathed in a cold Spenglerian apprehension that the lights were about to go out, that history's astonishing material indulgence of the U.S. was about to end. Possibilities seemed to contract. Americans tutored in the gospels of progress began for the first time to peer at the future as a possible enemy. A few of them started waving pistols in the gas lines...