Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hung from the ceiling of the hall in a broad metallic sweep from the stage to the terraces in the rear, and directly behind the stage proper have been installed a series of sound chambers. The "clouds" can be raised and lowered and the chambers opened and closed to adjust the sound of the hall. These adjustments will continue for probably as much as a year but even from the beginning to the end of opening week the improvement was clearly evident...
Speaking to a Boston College audience, he adopted a definition that calls the cold war "a stuggle to see which system can adjust faster to a changing world...
...Harvard variation of the wing-T, the opposite side halfback is winged. This puts six men on side of the center. The defense must adjust to this or risk being weaker on one side. The advantage here is one of power, and the offense can pull a power sweep to one side, or utilize the wingback for pass protection blocking, among other plays...
Much of the impetus for liberalization comes from the Cabinet's younger ministers who are anxious to adjust the nation's anachronistic policies to those of the rest of Western Europe in order to cushion the shock when-and if-Spain wins associate membership in the Common Market...
...they make only analyses and never policy, but their influence is wide if only because they work in terms that McNamara understands. The military are getting the message. Says one Army planner: "It's an entirely different way of doing business. But we've just had to adjust to it. No longer can you prove a point with civilian defense leaders by saying it's so because you know as a professional military man that it's just so. You've got to prove it now." To help prove it, the military are belatedly paying...