Word: adjustability
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...middle school, where science teachers like Jennifer Mitchell have incorporated lessons on solar panels, double-glazed windows and other green features into their curriculums. When students discover that the wood beneath their feet comes from recycled wine casks or that carbon dioxide sensors in the classrooms can automatically adjust temperature by detecting how many people are inside, they're living a daily lesson in what green really means. "It becomes a standard they take with them," says Mitchell...
Kalluk and his people will just have to adjust, but the polar bears may not be able to. A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) predicts that shrinking sea ice will mean a two-thirds reduction in their population by midcentury. Not even strict adherence to the Kyoto accord on limiting greenhouse gases would stop an Arctic meltdown, which means the Arctic, like nowhere else on Earth, is a place where efforts to mitigate global warming have yielded to full-bore adaptation to its impact. That process is freighted with irony. With gas and oil prices near historic...
...Terriers posed a significant challenge for the Crimson, the environs of the match proved to be just as stifling for the Cambridge men. “No one was used to the size of the pool,” Voith said. “We couldn’t adjust, and they outmanned us and used all the advantages of the facility.” The Blodgett pool, Harvard’s home pool, has dimensions of 25 by 30 feet, but the pool the Crimson found itself in yesterday was significantly thinner, holding dimensions of 25 by 20 feet...
...would retire if his album [Graduation, also released Sept. 11] sold more than mine. I think people would like for it to be a beef. Then it would be really uncomfortable for Kanye, wouldn't it? I'm already conditioned for those things, but he'd have to adjust. My car's already bulletproof...
...professors concede this in the book and adjust their original point: while the lobby would have preferred to attack Iran, they say, it was perfectly happy to support an invasion of Iraq after it saw the direction in which the Bush administration was heading...