Word: adjustability
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Sure, thrown controllers have bruised any number of hyper-competitive teenagers, while racing games—with their incessant tunnel-vision scenery—can necessitate a brief recovery period to adjust your vision to the boringly stationary real world. But until recently, serious game-related accidents were few and far between...
...temporal power into a single figure. The Pope was, then, not only the highest spiritual authority in Christianity, but also a monarch with absolute power over earthly affairs. Although often well-intentioned, this dual ambition led to repeated abuses like political excommunications and the selling of indulgences to adjust the Papal budget balance...
...scale. But this argument casually assumes that HUDS’ current production level produces economies of scale benefits. Further, it claims that allowing students to make choices would lead to a drop in sales that would significantly cut into those benefits. Even if these premises are correct, HUDS can adjust by consolidating some dining halls to reduce costs or allowing other more competitive vendors to lease dining hall space...
Still, writing a novel is not like writing songs, and it took Portman a while to adjust. Beverly Horowitz, publisher of Bantam Delacorte Dell's young-readers division, said he had to do a lot of revisions to clarify and simplify his manuscript. "Frank was able to come to understand that there's a difference between writing a novel and music," she says. "You can't stand next to it and say, 'This is what I meant in Chapter...
...only a band-aid, a temporary solution to the more insidious problem of the weak health care system in Africa. The U.S. doctors are charged with treating children urgently in need of ARV care, while at the same time training and teaching local doctors and nurses how to adjust doses and understand symptoms of AIDS in the disease's youngest patients. It hasn't been easy, but the 52 doctors who left Houston in August have been doing their small part to treat as many HIV-infected kids as they can - and to help these kids to grow...