Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quest at times seems impossibly romantic, restorationists display a refreshing pragmatism. Rather than demanding that all hydroelectric dams be dynamited, river restorationists insist that power generators install fish ladders and adjust water flows to help salmon and trout reach upstream spawning grounds. Al Steuter, manager of the Nature Conservancy's 20,800- hectare (51,400-acre) Niobrara Valley Preserve in Nebraska, hopes to demonstrate how ranchers can run cattle on restored prairies without destroying them. After all, he asks, "what's the point of restoration if we have to station guards to protect the landscape...
...Then, you have to adjust and do what you can," Restic continued. "But in all fairness to the people who came in there and worked the game, I thought they did as well as they could possibly do based on the work they...
While Harvard's defense held strong against Army's all-wishbone option for most of the game, the Crimson will have to adjust to the Crusaders' more balanced attack...
...shyness with her mother's overbearing small talk. While Laura becomes ill at the thought of social interaction, Ma Wingfield rambles, "Light clothes an' light food are what warm weather calls fo'. You know our blood gets so thick during th' winter, it takes a while fo' us to adjust ou'selves...
...need a little more help," said Jim A. Neil, chief chef of the Harvard Dining Services Workers Union, Local 26, "but you have to give [the management] a chance to adjust...