Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took us time to adjust to [URI's] less skillful game," senior Loren Ambinder said. "We held onto the ball too much during the first half...
...first half, URI blitzed onto the field, putting Harvard on the defensive. Harvard--which plays a settled, possession-oriented game--was forced to adjust to URI's frenzied, hacking style of play...
...Soviet elections, terrifying and infuriating apparatchiks from one end of the U.S.S.R. to the other? Did he dare abandon the Communist Party's monopoly on political power? Could the system tolerate a free press? Could the Soviet people stand to hear the truth about their own past? Could they adjust to some version of free- market economics...
...internalizing the mores of a developed society. Once the automobile, the college dorm and the Pill became almost universally available, it was inevitable that men and women would start their sexual careers earlier and build up longer and more varied resumes. It was also inevitable that the churches would adjust to the new reality. If that meant adjusting traditional interpretations of the Ten Commandments...
...funded by congressional appropriations. Critics say the bureau has become an anachronism, no longer able to manage the Colorado and its myriad problems. "They're a bunch of dam builders," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, "and there aren't any dams to build. They have been unable to adjust to the new reality...