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...addition, their heart rates, which had at first shown a tendency to climb dramatically at the slightest exertion, became more steady. The improvement was at least partly attributable to a stepped-up program of exercises, but NASA doctors also suspect that the body may gradually adjust to weightlessness by itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Longest Journey | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...must adjust its policy supporting Israel in order to assure peace in the Persian Gulf and the flow of Arab oil to the west, a former British diplomat said yesterday...

Author: By William H. Reynolds, | Title: Former Diplomat Predicts New U.S. Mid-East Policy | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

Playboy, however, was careful to adjust statistically for these differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: A Sex Poll (1973) | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...problem of educated whites working with instate blacks. He notes that on a number of occasions he had personality conflicts with some of the black women in the campaign over seemingly trivial issues, and acknowledges that he had to go through a great number of changes in order to adjust...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: The New South and The Old Politics | 9/27/1973 | See Source »

...grills tell the counterman exactly when to flip over the hamburgers. Once done, the burgers can be held under infra-red warming lights for up to ten minutes, no more; after that, any burgers that have not been ordered must be thrown away. Cybernetic deep fryers continuously adjust to the moisture in every potato stick to make sure that French fries come out with a uniform degree of brownness; specially designed scoops make it almost physically impossible for a counterman to stuff more or fewer French fries into a paper bag than headquarters specifies for a single order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Burger That Conquered the Country | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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