Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gulf of Thailand, one Vietnamese teen-ager spent her first days ashore maniacally screaming. More often the break is less dramatic. Once I sat through a painful conversation in which a well-meaning German explained to a Vietnamese peasant family why it simply would not be able to adjust to life in industrial Frankfurt. Previously rejected by the U.S. and Britain, the dazed father sat in silence for several minutes, then asked: 'But where...
...handle the consequences of the applicant drop themselves. Some departments, like the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, have felt the affects of the drop sooner and more intensely than others. Eckehard Simon, chairman of the German Department, explains that he and Rosovsky worked together this year to adjust the Germanic curriculum so that the graduate department can continue to function with only three students. Under one plan, the entire program would shift to the undergraduate level with separate section meetings once a week for the graduate students...
They must be able to work fast and pull all-nighters in hotel rooms. A good one knows how to eliminate a character, take out a scene, adjust a set. Says Stein: "You need a sixth sense, a feeling for where the show dips." The doctor's bill partly depends upon his success in salvaging the show. There is usually a flat fee, ranging from about $10,000 to $30,000 for five or six weeks' work, and often a percentage of the show's revenues...
Experts who warned him through the winter of the fragile condition of energy supplies found the President to be uncomprehending of the forces that could be unleashed by an energy crunch. He insisted in his best Sunday-school manner that U.S. citizens would voluntarily adjust to energy inconvenience. His uneventful weeks as Georgia Governor during the 1973 oil embargo further clouded his view. America could cope without a lot of shouting from above...
...least one high executive has been fired, others have been transferred to RCA, and more have left on their own steam, usually after their responsibilities were tapered. "When you have a company with as many difficulties as we have had, you have to adjust functions," said Pfeiffer blandly. "Sometimes able people have to paint on smaller canvases." She added: "There will not be a lot of firing in the next several months. But there will be additional key changes...