Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard game" mode. Suddenly, rather than "playing" God, I found myself working overtime to keep my oceans from boiling away, my jungles from bursting into flame and my populations from suffering yet another mass extinction. SimEarth may turn out to be Gaia's best advertisement. If God had to adjust all these systems by hand, he'd never get a day of rest...
Other departments applauded the new changes, but some students said they are finding it difficult to adjust to the more visual teaching of calculus...
...plumbing shots of anonymous people." One Minneapolis couple combined a sleazy script with agile camerawork. "I was a door-to-door salesman, and she was the housewife," says Michael, in reality a business manager. During the taping, the pair stopped the action to move the camera around the bed, adjust the zoom lens and do retakes. Despite such antics, the experience ultimately proved moving emotionally. Viewing the tape, says Michael, "we saw how much real affection there was between us; it was there in how we touched each other. You don't have the same awareness of that while...
...Mercer mixed up his game well," Brown said. "He never settled into one pattern to which I could adjust my game. At one moment he was at the baseline, a couple points later he was serving and volleying...
...meantime, consumers and business leaders will have to adjust to a climate radically different from the 1980s, when the economy was reliable and forgiving. "We're in tough times in a very dicey world. There's going to be a lot of fallout," predicts Donald Jacobs, dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In large part, the U.S. and the world are paying for the excesses of the 1980s, in which companies, consumers and speculators lived far beyond their means. It may take as much global leadership and cooperation to avert a worldwide recession as it will...