Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...button with his right hand. Out of the searchlight comes a beam of noise, 50 pulses per second, which sounds like a distant chorus of crickets and spring peepers. The mixed frequencies are higher than human ears normally hear, but the researchers have found that they can quickly adjust to the higher pitch...
...During the Schirra flight, the cooling system in the capsule was "partially blocked by solidified lubricant," making it difficult for the astronaut to adjust his pressure suit to proper temperature...
...being disconnected from its original host. They have not yet been able to make the transplant as fast as that, and neither did Dr. Moore. But the Callahan-Bingel transplant had an advantage in that the liver had been precooled for 40 hours, which gave its tissues time to adjust to a lower metabolic rate...
...people will be able to use that extra leisure creatively. Almost everyone agrees that the U.S. is entering what University of California President Clark Kerr calls "the age of the knowledge industry," when men and women of all ages will have to be continuously educated through their lifetimes to adjust to continued technological changes...
...businessmen would think of making at home. Technical instructions are frequently printed in English instead of the local language, prices are quoted only in dollars, and English measurements given where the metric system is used. U.S. appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases of just plain incompetent or careless business practices...