Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give the impression that drinking is a way to reduce the risk of death from heart disease," Fuchs told the Gazette. "The way to do that is to deal with the risk factors. You can't do anything about your family history but you can stop smoking, lose weight, adjust your diet and take drugs to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. That makes more sense than drinking alcohol...
Sounds rational, but it isn't. Whereas heading off the next bomber is a chancy business at best, we could, if we chose, adjust highway death downward with nearly the precision of a volume-control knob. We could better enforce speed limits, say, or close all bars at dusk. Implicitly, society chooses not to save lives this way. Drivers and drinkers would bridle at the inconvenience. Indeed, most states have raised the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. since 1987, adding an estimated 400 to 500 deaths a year nationwide...
...saying create choices and let the market work," he said. "Just as G.M., Ford and Chrysler had to adjust to the Japanese imports, so will public education have to adjust to the competition [of charter schools...
What is the message of the college admissions process? Perhaps we should tech young people that it is better to be a chameleon than to be true to oneself. Learn to size up what a particular situation calls for and adjust your colors accordingly. My personal opinion is that it is ultimately fragmenting and self-defeating. How does a 17 year-old who succeeds by being a changeling ever learn who she is? As long as universities encourage this behavior they are not breeding great thinkers or healthy people...
...account of his English boyhood is high spirited, considering that he was permanently hobbled by polio and had to trade in his cricket gear for braces and crutches. Yet catching an early bad break had an unexpected upside. "The period when I might have been learning to adjust to the word [handicapped]," Sheed writes, "was so packed with small accomplishments that it was impossible not to feel like one of the world's winners ever afterwards...