Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization, be it government, navy, commercial or educational, will from time to time need to adjust itself to charging conditions. It is only by this process that we eliminate the old and adopt the new. Commodore Strauss has vigorously and successfully introduced and advocated new ideas in order that the Navy may be better able to meet its changing and increasing obligations...
With a bumper crop of novices in prospect (some from the armed services), Father Superior Whittemore is optimistic of his Order's future. Says he: "Our pres ent problem ... is to adjust the principles of monasticism to the 20th Century. We must dare, by God's help, to live dangerously...
...Principles. "Teach youth a trade, increase his earning power," say the vocationalists. "Help youth adjust to the complexities of modern society," proclaim the pragmatic Deweyites. "Instill in youth the wisdom of past ages," cry the Hutchinsites, flourishing their Great Books. Underlying all such panaceas are the basic principles of the world-envied U.S. educational system-"Jeffersonian" and "Jacksonian...
...ninth anniversary of Spain's Civil War, Franco announced to the National Council of the Spanish Falange (fascist) Party the first step in his plan to adjust Spanish policy to the world's new climate: Spain, as a Catholic State, would in due course return to its traditional monarchy. When the time came for the dynasty to replace the dictator, the Cortes would receive its instructions...
With these facts firmly in mind, the Mayor concluded: "The Government must pay either the entire difference [between costs and a reasonable retailers' profit] or else adjust the price...