Word: adjustability
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Even nursing homes are finding they must adjust to late-blooming love and its attendant complexities. In a forthcoming book, Stella Henry, a Los Angeles geriatric nurse and bioethicist, describes the very different family reactions to a romance between two pseudonymous residents--Jack, 92, and Jill, 86--in a Los Angeles-area long-term-care facility. While the man's family gave its blessings, the woman's relatives were appalled. Henry, reflecting the enlightened view of a new generation of caregivers, is sympathetic to late-December pairings as long as both partners still have their wits and the relationship doesn...
...immense demand has forced the bureau—a center founded to help students adjust to college life—to morph into a nearly full-time mental health center with 13 clinicians...
...Eastern Europe. Some G.I.s may even find themselves in Soviet-era bases that they once defended against. "We're not expecting the Soviet Union to launch a major tank war across the north German plain," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said while visiting Iraq last September. "So we need to adjust our footprint." Just how that footprint will change has yet to be decided, Pentagon officials say. They denied reports last week that up to 40,000 soldiers and support staff with the First Armored Division and First Infantry Division, both based in Germany, would be pulled stateside...
...We’re going to adjust a little bit come game-time,” Stone says, “but the approach takes place before they get into primary scoring area. It’s going to be about rebounds: controlling rebounds, and dominating the possession game...
...adjusted program, but she’s playing,” Delaney-Smith, “and we just have to sort of adjust certain things that she does so she doesn’t get any worse...