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This failure to "widen the circle" is experienced by older immigrants, who are frightened to begin a new life and learn a new, unfamiliar language. Younger immigrants, especially children, adjust faster to the language and thus outstrip their parents in adapting to American society. This, sociologists say, sometimes results in a lack of communication between parents and children. However Natasha and Marina Taube, ages seven and ten, respectively, are as close as ever to their parents...
...engineering model"--differs significantly from economic models, because it entirely ignores the role prices play in determining the nation's energy mix. The Westinghouse electricity model projects both demographic trends and economic indicators, such as total population, housing stock and employment to predict total electricity use. The model must adjust these input assumptions from the energy forecasts of Data Resources, Inc., Otto Eckstein's Lexington, Mass., econometrics firm. However sophisticated the model or precise its electricity computations, the forecasts will prove no more accurate than the input assumptions someone feeds it. MR&A's forecast last year projected about...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--A Black Learning Resource Center at the University of Minnesota is helping some Black students--and some disadvantaged white students--adjust to a white university culture...
...while head coach Joe Restic warns that the Crusader defense is "very big and very physical," he said that its set-up is "made to order for us." Sending Cuccia in motion, Restic said, will limit Holy Cross's ability to double-cover Cuccia or adjust to a Buckley roll...
Harvard's third man, Felix "the Cat" Rippy, disproved any theories that freshman need time to adjust to college athletics as he whizzed by the finish line...