Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face a difficult situation: Few opportunities exist for organized music performance, and even finding a good practice piano can prove time-consuming and fruitless. These musicians--not all of whom are necessarily headed for professional careers--have two options. They either leave--as Hunt did--or they quietly re-adjust their habits, and perhaps even their ambitions, to conform to the conditions of an unashamedly academic environment...
Darkness forced the teams to move in-doors, but it did not take the Harvard players long to adjust to the slow courts. They swept all three matches to emerge with a satisfying...
...During the night, the bodies settled. A hand would adjust, by a fraction, causing another's head to turn slightly. Features imperceptibly altered. 'The trembling of the sleeping night,' Pushkin called it; only he was referring to the settling of a house...
...eastern ski powers will need to adjust quickly to keep pace with the West's big guns, particularly former champion University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Wyoming, and a very strong University of Utah squad...
...required by prison regulations, and cross a reception area containing glass cases filled with prisoner handicrafts such as pottery and knitted baby clothes. After she has been photographed, fingerprinted and given a medical exam, she will stay in the reception block for at least two weeks to help her adjust to her new surroundings. Eventually she will become part of the 420-woman population of the prison proper, 60% of it black and 15% Hispanic. Violence is rare at the women's institution; murders even rarer. "We are always overcrowded," says the "escorting officer" who, with a nicety Harris...