Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy from Blue busting to detente with IBM. Conceding that many firms will rely partially on IBM equipment, Apple has decided it must coexist by devising both software and hardware adapters that will give its machines the ability to communicate with IBM's gear. "We recognize we have to adjust to IBM's world," said Sculley, "because they're not going to adjust to ours...
...possible. The procedure permits nourishing blood vessels to be transplanted along with the needed fibula section. The operation depends on painstaking microsurgical techniques developed in the 1960s that allow teams of surgeons, operating under a microscope, to reconnect the fragile transplanted vessels. Supplied with blood, the grafted bone will adjust to its new location and eventually become almost indistinguishable from the host bone...
...Beach (How could it?), but it often can feel that bleak--minus joy, love, light, certitude, peace and help for pain. As yet, no industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science without the loss of human feeling, that hardly seems the cure for the fearfulness or the hollow detachment of much of modern life...
...result, the National Research Council may be right when it advises that the only thing we can do to adjust to the greenhouse effect is to adjust climate patterns. We are destroying the environmental are rare faster than over the imagined and here in Cambridge we have the dubious honor of among the first to feel the effects of that destruction...
...debts. Six years later she had a son of her own, whom she seemed to favor. Some friends now believe this was the seed of Ueberroth's drive to achieve, the deep need to gain approval from his new mother. The family moved often, and young Pete had to adjust to a variety of schools and neighborhoods, from Iowa to Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and finally to Northern California, in the town of Burlingame. By then his father was home most of the time, ill from a heart attack...