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Still more sweeping changes are rumored to be on the way. Pledging to revive the economy and institute a new regime of discipline and hard work, Gorbachev warned in May that "those who do not intend to adjust and who are an obstacle to solving these new tasks must simply get out of the way." He followed up in June with a speech denouncing stodgy production ministries and their ministers. Tougher yet, he cited four of the incompetents by name. Moscow gossip has it that unless the Old Guard can somehow figure out a way to stop him before...
...dream that sometimes starts as a nightmare. Carty, the 1970 National League batting champion who played nine years for the Braves, remembers he ate chicken for three months because he did not know enough English to ask for anything else. And he never did adjust to cold weather in the early weeks of the season. A few teams now have programs, including English lessons, to bridge the culture gap, and some players take to the U.S. well enough to stay...
...have "a chip on his shoulder." Edmund's mixed feelings about the new world opening before him were captured in the farewell note to Exeter that he wrote in his senior yearbook: "It's a pity that we part on less than a friendly basis," he wrote. "Work to adjust yourself to a changing world, as will...
...machines from a handful of Japanese companies were sold in the U.S., and J.C. Penney and Sears now carry models in their catalogs. Karaokes, which range from $150 to $2,500, incorporate a cassette player, loudspeaker and microphone in a single unit. All a budding balladeer need do is adjust a few simple controls, start the tape of background music and sing along with the lyric sheet. Thousands of pop songs, from Rock of Ages to Jump, are available...
...Asian-American success story, while impressive and increasingly conspicuous, is by no means universal. A sizable minority of immigrants from the Far East cannot, for one reason or another, adjust to their new lives and sink deeper and deeper into despair. Not surprisingly, such feelings are much less common among immigrants who came to the U.S. on their own initiative than among those who fled their homelands for political reasons...