Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recover the forms of an older, deeper Christianity. From the churches to the laboratories, change itself has become the only constant. Says Stanford's Dr. Dwight Allen: "We are not shifting from one sort of tradition to another; we are in flux for keeps. We have to adjust institutions, attitudes, professions to the fact that change is here to stay...
...George Romney managed to convince voters that he was not the same kind of politician as the reactionaries that controlled the State Senate (although he is closer to them than most people think). Sixties Liberals have worked uneasily with Romney, but the Fifties Liberals have not been able to adjust successfully to the Romney appeal. They have a hard time realizing that state elections are no longer automatically theirs, and that their tactics (which they tend to confuse with principles) failed to win the governorship...
...play is symptomatic of British attempts since the end of World War II to adjust to lost world influence. The frustrating impotence of vanished power masquerades as the moral virtue of a troubled conscience. Going off on tangents, staging diversionary incidents, piling on self-indulgent rhetoric: all these would have been enough to spoil the play. But Arden has a much more drastic flaw. He tries to practice consensus drama, a contradiction in terms. For Serjeant Musgrave's Dance to possess any intrinsic vitality, there would have to be a respectable body of thought holding that war is heavenly...
...transporting marijuana as well as failing to pay taxes on it, was fined $40,000 and tentatively given the maximum sentence of 30 years in jail. Only by imposing a maximum sentence, the judge explained, was he able to order a psychiatric examination of Leary, after which he may adjust the sentence...
Critics argue that the Dow-Jones is inflated, exaggerated and inaccurate-and they are partly right. It is the sum of only 30 selected stocks, ranging alphabetically from Allied Chemical to Woolworth; that sum is then divided by a divisor (currently 2.245) to adjust for past stock splits and dividends. Not only is the Dow a severely limited gauge of the 1,625 stocks on the Big Board, but it gives undue power to higher-priced stocks. Example: Du Pont is only one-sixth the size of General Motors, but carries more than twice as much weight...