Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actions instead of firing, and a picture of the modernized Postal Service emerges. Officials downplay the problems but admit that the new pace is hard on older clerks accustomed to stuffing mail into pigeonholes. Yet the old-fashioned postalworker represented by two powerful unions is going to have to adjust. "We've got to capture the savings dollar-for-dollar that these machines represent, or we can kiss the Postal Service as we know it goodbye," says Robert Setrakian, chairman of the Postal Board of Governors...
Helen L. McCreedy, a social worker who helps Southeast Asian refugees adjust to life in the U.S., introduced the forum by stressing the importance of understanding cultural differences when helping immigrants adapt to this country...
...Crimson flew out to Lincoln Wednesday, thus allowing ample time to adjust to the one-hour time difference. Harvard may have more trouble adjusting to the height difference--the Cornhuskers possess two seven-footers and seven others taller than...
...Soviet empire is disintegrating so quickly and in so many ways that * neither Moscow nor Washington has been able to adjust its policies fast enough to keep up with events. Last week, while the East German regime went into free fall, nationalists in the Estonian parliament prepared to consider a resolution that explicitly challenges the legitimacy of Soviet rule and implicitly raises the possibility of an eventual declaration of independence...
...first half, we ran a play that was picking up very good yardage," Restic said, "and we thought they would adjust to that play, which they did. We went back and took the backside away, went the other direction and went away from that play altogether. That was a big play...