Word: adjustable
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Mayer, a social moderate who supports abortion rights, is a fiscal conservative with a record of cutting wasteful spending as the state's General Treasurer. She has detailed ideas on how to adjust the tax system, including indexing the capital-gains tax to inflation and giving estate-tax cuts to help small businesses. She'll have to buck a hefty Democratic tradition, though, to become the Ocean State's first female senator...
...have so many weapons...we're not going to adjust our style for them," said McLaughlin. "We're going to try to impose our style on them...
...reduction is down to what we've always wanted," he said. "The last few years have been abnormally large because the department has done quite well, and we had an increase and we didn't adjust immediately...
...government, Chen said, must effectively adjust to the rigorous demands of the competitive international economy...
...Bodine Aluminum, Lloyd still ruefully recalls the day the new Troy plant produced the first intake manifold to be rejected--after three months and 60,000 defect-free parts. The lapse "was immediately followed by an eight-hour meeting the next day," says Lloyd, who has had to adjust to the Japanese penchant for such talkathons. "Before, if I wanted to do X, I could do X," Lloyd says, "but now we have to meet for three days. They want everyone to be on board." Bodine has cut its initial reject rate from 20% to less than 2%. Even better...