Word: adjuster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...essence, Harley pleaded for time to adjust to the competition. The new tariff provides it. The duty will leap upward from the current 4.4% to 49.4% effective April 15, then scale back gradually over the next five years. As a result, according to the I.T.C., the prices of Japanese bikes should rise 10% this year and an additional...
...programs. In a Brighton chemistry class, Teacher Dang Pham lectures about the dac, the long and the khi before discussing the concepts of solid, liquid and gas in English. When test time comes, most students choose to take the test in English. Says Pham: "They have to learn to adjust to a new system in a new society so they can help themselves and their families." Out of 83 students on the honor roll at Brighton High, 56 are Vietnamese. All 32 Vietnamese members of last June's graduating class went on to college. Thanh Tran, 19, who left...
Members have branched out to their own groups as well in subjects such as egg painting and book discussion. Shelley Sage, who recently came to Harvard from New Zealand with her husband, a Medical School instructor in anesthesia, says this group and the Neighbors helped her find friends and adjust to this country...
Britz feels he's come a long way from when he first tried playing under Cleary Coming from the junior leagues, it took a while to adjust to the Crimson mentor's standards. "A lot of coaches will work with the variation (in their players)," he notes "Cleary likes to mold everyone into a fast skating team. I was more of a roaming center and Cleary plays a very tight system--the center stays in the middle...
...Elizabeth McNary, for example, has moments of startling insipidity ("Do it my way/ Take the sly way/ Don't sit dreaming/ Don't by scheming") and a few jarring mistakes ("My lordship"). And the occasional intervals of equally forced dialogue sit strangely among the arias. But once you adjust to the production's apparent aim--to showcase actual, civilized musical finesse in this outpost of barbarity--it's impossible not to appreciate the success of the endeavor. The grown-up world does have its charms...