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...became more aware of Charlie, who was ever aware of us and each tree and each branch and each leaf. The way he explained it was this: "What's happened, see, is me not adjusting to the 'Free World.' I've made up my own world. In other words, I didn't and wouldn't adjust to society and their reality of things...
...reason this probably happens is that it's a tremendous shock for people who are used to being big shots to come here and have to adjust to being just like everyone else...
...poisons to kill them. But the most striking evidence of the coyote's adaptability is its emergence in urban areas. Unlike other animals displaced by the growth of cities, says Donald Balser of the Denver Wildlife Research Center, "they alone have managed to re-adjust in the shadow of civilization. There are coyote populations in every major metropolis in the West today...
Slim Chances. Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee last week objected strongly to Simon's emphasis on lowering corporate taxes. Said Chairman Al Ullman: "I just simply cannot adjust my thinking to a reduction of corporate rates that would shift the burden further to the individual taxpayers." Another criticism is that Simon's proposed reductions for individual taxpayers would make the tax system less progressive, by giving the biggest benefits to upper-income people, who own more stock and collect more dividends than individuals in the lower brackets...
Although floating rates have not lived up to expectations, they did help currency values adjust to the shock of quintupled oil prices in 1973 and early 1974. Partly for that reason, there is no agreement that others should now follow France's lead and shift back to fixed rates. Says Treasury Secretary William Simon: "The old system was abandoned | for one simple reason. It didn't work." Clearly, it did not work at all well during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the industrialized nations I lurched from one chaotic monetary crisis to another. Members...