Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough week," Harvard Co-Captain Peter Palandjian said. "We played better each day. We had to adjust to the outdoors. It is obviously disappointing losing that many matches...
That scene may become painfully familiar in the months ahead as other developers find themselves stretched too thin to adjust to the new tax law. The National Realty Committee, which represents some 300 big U.S. developers, estimates that the changes required by tax reform will cost the real estate industry as much as $50 billion during the next five years. Under the old tax rules, real estate investors could shelter salary and other income with losses generated by limited partnerships. Kroh relied on such partnerships for as much as 20% of its capital, or some $20 million a year. Money...
...kind of furious shorthand, using abbreviations, initials and acronyms at every opportunity, as though the writer were too rushed to tap out the entire word or name. AMCITS stood for "American citizens," NLT for "no later than." Vowels disappeared from staccato sentences: "We will not be trying to adjust yr sched for next June for this mtg." Oliver North's memos, often typed on his computer late at night and sent directly to his National Security Council superiors, read like the dispatches of a man with no time to waste, a man obsessed, a man slightly out of control...
...walled huts to share a cup of tea is to be plunged immediately into an impenetrable, claustrophobic gloom, choked with smoke. A laser beam of sunlight fires through the darkness from a window the size of a Kenya five-shilling piece. It takes three minutes for the eyes to adjust and make out the dim outlines of one's friends sitting on short stools, knees near their chins, their eyes fixed dreamily on the coals of the cooking fire, their ruminative conversation interrupted by long silences...
Just as the first members of the baby boom are settling into middle age, here comes the downsized baby bust -- and the scramble to adjust to an era of smaller, leaner and less in most aspects of American society. Baby busters are children born between 1965 and 1980, when the U.S. birthrate took a dive, thanks to the Pill, legalized abortion and shifts away from the traditional family. Result: total births in the U.S. dropped from 72.5 million during the postwar baby-boom years to 56.6 million in the bust generation. In 1975 the birthrate sank to 14.6 newborns...