Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Atlas, who has worked with Time Magazine and Atlantic Monthly as well as The New York Times, said he has had to adjust to the dissolution of his fantasies. "The job I thought I'd have doesn't exist," he said. "I've had a lot of interesting quasi-literary jobs, which is good, and I've written a lot of things I never thought I would. I think reporting and writing about literary criticism is the only solution...
What if television sets were equipped with knobs that let viewers customize the shows they watch? If they could adjust the sex content, for example, or regulate the violence, or shift the political orientation to the left or right? What if motion pictures were able to monitor the attention level of audiences and modify their content accordingly, lengthening some scenes while cutting others short if they evoke yawns. What if the newspapers that reach subscribers' homes every morning could be edited with each particular reader in mind -- filled with stories selected because they affected his neighborhood, or had an impact...
...controlling AT&T's profit margins, which the agency has done for more than two decades as a means of limiting long-distance prices. Instead, the FCC aims to protect consumers by another method: setting price caps, which would freeze long-distance rates at current levels but could adjust them upward to account for inflation and other factors. AT&T rejoiced at the decision, which Wall Street analysts say could allow the company's profits to jump by an estimated 50% by 1990. But consumer advocates blasted the proposal and claimed it would bring an end to the slide...
Harvard supposedly has an advising system which should be instrumental in helping students adjust to their college experience. But the Razo case suggests that the system has shown itself once again to be inadequate and in-sufficient for guiding students through one of their most extraordinary and traumatic times of their lives. Not one person here seems to have had any hint that Razo had any trouble adjusting to Harvard, that he might have been stealing on his vacations, or that he might have hated his life in Cambridge. But maybe College administrators can be happy with their system...
Bergmann's chief help on defense comes from Rob Graff, Rich van den Broek, Chris Bentley and Perry Dodge. By consistently keeping opponents under 10 goals per game, the Harvard defense has taken pressure off the scorers while they adjust to new faces...