Word: adjusting
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...Delicate Adjustment. The furnace's appearance is as spectacular as its power. Its glittering eight-story-high parabolic reflector (roughly half the size of a football field) towers over Odeillo's centuries-old houses. Anchored against a reinforced concrete office and laboratory building, the huge concave mirror consists of 8,570 individual reflectors. For the furnace to operate efficiently, these small (18 inches square) mirrors must be precisely adjusted so that their light will converge exactly at the parabola's focal point 59 ft. in front of the giant reflector. Only half of the mirrors have been...
Wolff also noted behavioral patterns among pedestrians walking in the same direction. Generally, they move in a sort of formation that permits them to see over the shoulders of the people in front. When one person in a cluster of individuals changes position, the others adjust theirs to accommodate the new "over-the-shoulder" relationship. Walking directly behind somebody is usually saved for congested sidewalks, when the person ahead is used as a sort of blocking guard. Hurrying through a crowd alone is often more tiring than timesaving. "To beat the rush-hour mob in New York," says Wolff...
...crew made steady progress: it just takes a while to adjust to new conditions and a bigger boat." Horn said...
...have the barriers remained so high? Says Gunn: "Power and influence on Broadway are in the hands of whites. They feel threatened at letting others get involved. Discrimination is not diabolical in intent. It is extremely difficult to adjust to the new situation, to get over ingrained prejudices and to realize that black people, whom they have labeled 'inferior,' can do the same thing that they do or do It better...
Different Approaches. Treating a black patient and treating a white patient can call for differences in approach, and some black psychiatrists subtly accommodate them. Where traditional therapy encourages the patient to adjust to the world as it is, black therapy extends a more activist invitation. "How can you tell a black patient to adjust to this society?" asks Black Psychiatrist Price M. Cobbs. "We don't. For the black patient to become healthy, he must engage himself in changing a society that needs changing." This is not to say, of course, that all black emotional problems can be traced...