Word: adjustability
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Pranks aside, though, the rivalry is based on our undeniable cognitive superiority. Sure, their SAT scores might be on par with ours, but that’s before you adjust for race. And sure, their graduates go on to all of the best law schools and investment banks. But what you won’t find in the admissions brochures is that lots of their graduates also go on to prison, mainly for being perverts. That fancy diploma won’t get them far there, but those “oral techniques” they picked...
...that level of savvy could come in especially handy now that Repubicans must adjust to their minority status. Along with newly elected Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lott could spell problems for incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who stands nine votes short of what he needs to get anything controversial passed. Lott is more conservative and partisan than his opponent, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, which could signal more polarization and less cooperation in the Senate; in other words, the post-election talk of putting partisanship aside and getting the people's business done may be short-lived...
...season and whose status is uncertain, finished No. 15 at the Regional meet with a score of 421. “It’s obviously a change without [Lindsey],” Junior Sarah Bourne said. “It will take time to adjust, but we’ll just try and do the best we can without her.” Freshman Stacy Carlson continued her solid debut campaign, leading Harvard with a No. 62 finish in a time of 23:06. Bourne followed, finishing No. 64 with a time of 23:11 for the six-kilometer...
Ordinary novelists have readers. Thomas Pynchon has decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...prisoners are placed in chain-link enclosures called "dog runs," one per cage. Their cuffs are removed through a door slot. This is the only time the inmates actually see and interact with one another. "It is awkward adjusting my voice from the necessary yell of the cell block to the face-to-face conversation in the yard," Rudolph writes. "Unlike me the Arabs don't adjust the volume." Rudolph describes how his neighbors pair up in their separate runs and then "walk the length of the cage in unison, back and forth, yelling as they...