Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They] are privy to information about students that is sometimes critical in helping them to adjust to college life or to cope with a difficult family or personal circumstance, " the statement reads...
...become necessary mostly because of this year's extra late movein date of Sept. 10, which is only two days before upperclass registration and is in the middle of the week. Such timing just makes it more difficult for students, many with their parents, to travel and re-adjust to the College. Associate Dean of Harvard College for Human Resource and the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 ought to make an earlier move-in date for next year, and work with the house superintendents who better know how to accommodate student needs...
...exactly. Shortly after Solovyev and Vinogradov donned their spacesuits and depressurized an airlock adjacent to Spektr in preparation for opening the airless lab's hatch, Vinogradov's left glove began leaking air. At first the cosmonauts were unconcerned, and a ground controller even joked as Vinogradov struggled to adjust his suit. "Pull it with all your proletarian force," he instructed...
...numbers. Cramer runs a hedge fund, a Wall Street investment vehicle for superrich investors looking for hyperterrific returns in all sorts of economic weather. While most investors bet on the broader market or particular stocks, wealthy clients want to protect their pile by "hedging" their risk with funds that adjust to economic conditions as fast as the market changes. With stocks teetering at record highs, demand for that sort of insurance is blossoming. The best hedge funds have become as exclusive as Augusta National, and hot managers are the rock stars of the investing world. Among the sexiest: George Soros...
...memo to employees only hours after the deal was sealed, Steven Goldstone, CEO of RJR Nabisco, wrote that the historic agreement "radically changes the way we do business." No kidding. The tobacco industry in the U.S. will have to adjust from being a cash-rich, freewheeling marketer to one of the most regulated businesses in the U.S.; from an industry that can't advertise enough to one that can barely show its face. And to pay for the agreement, tobacco executives are going to install one of the biggest price increases in the history of consumer products: possibly more than...