Word: adjusted
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Increasing centralization and the pressure of larger orders now prevent most publishers from supplying retailers on an emergency basis. Before next semester, the Coop wants to adjust to the change -- but it will need more support from within the University. It will certainly need more co-operation from the large number of professors who send their reading lists to the Coop less than two weeks before registration and from those who send them incomplete but never bother to notify the Coop of additions. It must be able to obtain course enrollment figures soon after each term begins, so that...
...argument that children suffer most by a divorce no longer seems to be a deterrent; many psychiatrists believe that they can adjust nicely to an orderly divorce. "Divorce is not the costliest experience possible to a child," says Child Psychiatrist J. Louise Despert. "Unhappy marriage without divorce can be far more destructive." The gradual weakening of religious strictures against divorce has also tended to make it more acceptable; all but the most fundamental U.S. Protestants now accept civil divorce-and the "new moralists" go further. In destructive family situations, says the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, professor of Christian social...
...volunteers admit they can't grapple with the tribe's decisions about its own future and they adjust their expectations for the summer. The children of the tribe are home for vacation, restless because they miss boarding school in town. For the older teenagers especially the summer in Supai only reaffirms their determination to leave the settlement. Parents and tribal leaders, frightened by the threatened exodus of Havasupai's young blood, welcome the PBH volunteers to Supai because they are often able to convince the children and teenagers that there is something precious about their Canyon. Harvard students often claim...
...changed." Many of Freud's successors are more optimistic. Philadelphia's Dr. Samuel Hadden reported last year that he had achieved twelve conversions out of 32 male homosexuals in group therapy. Paris Psychiatrist Sacha Nacht reports that about a third of his patients turn heterosexual, a third adjust to what they are, and a third get no help at all. But he feels that only about one in ten is moved to seek help in the first place...
...tread a thin line between mak ing school a pleasant experience in rehabilitation and just a vacation from city life. Warwick Superintendent A. Alfred Cohen says that his school is "an abnormally good environment" for the boys, but if they stay too long they will not be able to adjust to conditions at home. California's Nelles School al lows its boys to watch late-night movies on television, visit movie studios on field trips, attend monthly birthday parties. But some deliberately misbehave in order to stay longer and a few teachers think the place is too liberal. Declares...