Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Examine some of the more general publications. True, there are advertisements which catch the eye with a stunning girl. But, count the girl-oriented ads as a percentage of the total number of advertisements in the magazine. You may want to adjust your opinion of business advertising on the basis of such research...
...matter how long they live in New York City, Southern writers and editors never seem to adjust. They may not be able to go home again, as Thom as Wolfe once warned, but they resist making a home of New York. Their work, too, stands apart. To their writ ing, they bring a closeness to the soil, an abiding sense of tradition, a refreshing wonderment at the city's delights along with a certain wariness. All these qualities are much in evidence in two new books by transplanted Southerners, North Toward Home by Willie Morris, and A Pride...
...remarkable achievement has been Coach Jim Feula's ability to develop offensive lines to adjust to the backfield. Year after year he takes virtual unknowns and makes agile guards out of them...
...game had elements of evenness in the scoreless first quarter: it took that long for the Harvard offense to adjust to the Leopards' "50 angle" defense, for quarterback Ric Zimmerman to find the passing range, and for the bigger Crimson linemen to wear out their Lafayette counterparts...
That is his main point of attack on the government-sponsored studies which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses to prove that people can in fact adjust to the sonic boom. The study which NASA quotes most often, by Bolt, Beranek and Newman, had subjects pushing buttons to activate an artificial boom-creating device. Although the artificial boom was as loud as a real one, the volunteers knew the boom would occur within five seconds after they pushed the button. Even among the fully-prepared subjects, almost half showed a marked increase in heart-beat as a result...