Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty, to a policy-decision? Harvard's decentralized government and its community-minded Office for Civic and Governmental Affairs would probably never permit an apartheid-gymnasium issue to reach the Corporation in the first place. But in the face of general increase in student agitation, does Harvard need to adjust its constitution? Or does the current decision-making system provide adequate means for any community member to express his thoughts...
...head. When his father volunteers for the Navy in World War II, Josh and his decaying Southern-belle mama go off to wait at the family summer place in Corazón Sagrado, a tiny town in the mountains of New Mexico. Unfortunately, Mama can't adjust to Sagrado; the people are Mexicans, Indians and Anglos, the streets are full of donkey manure, and there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar and becomes a befuddled wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process...
...higher organisms. This is not the case for very simple cells like bacteria, where the genetic information is transcribed into RNA and immediately translated into protein. Kafatos explained that, due to the great instability of the bacterial world, bacteria do not think ahead because they must be able to adjust continually to constantly changing conditions. The DNA sends a steady stream of messenger RNA which adjusts the cell's protein-synthesizing orders. Any one message remains in the cytoplasm for about three minutes. There is thus immediate control. As soon as an environmental change makes a change in the cell...
...defense did little better. Yale shifted its strategy for the game, allowing its attackers to come out in front of the crease and leaving its midfielders back, and the Crimson just couldn't adjust...
...Architectural Sciences Department, acting in good faith, has promised to adjust its concentration requirements towards those of the new major. For example, under certain circumstances the department will grant permission to substitute its math and physics requirement with courses from the much wider list of Visual Studies required and optional related courses. Also all Vis Stud courses will be equally open to Arch Sci concentrators next year. It is important that the old department let its concentrators make their programs of study as much like those of the new department as possible...