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...Cambridge's Portuguese community there is almost no involvement in politics," Father Joel Oliveira, pastor of St. Anthony's church, says. "The political system in Portugal is so different--there is no involvement in politics at all by the people--it is hard for the Portuguese to adjust. Many Portuguese in Cambridge are not citizens--others do not want to lose citizenship. They don't know about the American system and situation. The Portuguese in Cambridge make a community apart from the general community. The only thing they try to do is make a better life. They...
Similarly, while rural backgrounds may have hindered Irishmen in their attempts to adjust to urban life, migrants from rural America had little difficulty adjusting. And the Irish at least had the advantage over other European groups of not having to adjust to a new language. What is more, many second-generation immigrants in Boston also had low upward mobility, and they grew up in an urban environment. Also, Thernstrom demonstrates that the degree of upward mobility within an ethnic group is unrelated to the extent that the group is segregated from the rest of society...
...right five to worrying about the next team on the schedule. Smooth the rough edges rather than radically alter the game plan. But such a tactic assumes a certain amount of arrogance, even if it seems perhaps a natural law to a former Celtic. For if you don't adjust, you have to make 'em play your brand of basketball. And if there is one thing Harvard has not been able to do for 40 minutes to date, it is make their opponents play their brand, Cambridge variety...
...confronting the changes now racking the oil business, Exxon is not without its strengths-to put the matter in a classic Exxon understatement. Whatever Arabs or Congressmen do, the company's wealth, experience, savvy, diversity and proven ability to adjust promise to keep it the most formidable tiger in the world...
...long-range goal of the Institute, therefore, is to meet certain national needs at the same time that it helps women to adjust to the gloomy economic conditions ahead. "The worst thing that could happen is that women who have trained for a career will come out of school only to bump their heads against a stone wall," Horner said. "Above all we don't want women to have to take a step backwards...