Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take lighting. The building employs the latest in efficient technology, including tiny sensors that adjust office illumination depending on whether or not people are actually using the room and how much light is streaming in through the windows. But beyond that, "Everything we did took lighting into account," says architect Randy Croxton, who also designed the National Resources Defense Council building. "The height of work stations, the color of paint on the walls, the orientation of windows and corridors -- all were designed to optimize lighting strategy." Moreover, the lighting isn't homogeneous, the way it is in most offices...
...make good things happen for you. Oppose us, and . . . well, watch out. Delivering the first part of the message, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen on March 12 welcomed into his airy office executives of seven major oil companies: Amoco, Ashland, Chevron, Conoco, Phillips, Shell and Unocal. "We're willing to adjust our fuel tax in ways that will help you," said Bentsen. He noted that his department had already promised to revise the way it proposed to collect a new energy tax to favor U.S. oil refiners over foreign competitors. He vowed to consider half a dozen other changes urged...
...fall of 1986, after a massive lobbying effort by then-President Derek C. Bok, the University was granted a seven-year delay to adjust to the end of forced retirement practices...
...Skinny: Adds power in the batting order, must adjust to new position...
Carter says the two years she had spent at a prep school helped her adjust to dorm life more easily than her first-year roommates. In the co-ops, she says, she found more maturity and freedom...