Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising, then, that Polish farmers have little faith in what they derisively call "those people down in Warsaw." The government, they feel, refuses to adjust to the fact that farming requires long-term planning. In addition, the "rural brigades," groups of soldiers who occasionally visited farmers during the martial law period to remind them of the government's good intentions, hardly inspired confidence. Scoffs Szur: "They knew less about farming than my two-year-old daughter. They pretended to be interested in me, but they really wanted to hear about my political views." Farmer Jan Skrzypkowski was spared such...
...January, Robert Jaunich II was brought in from Consolidated Foods, where he was president, to become chief executive officer. He found it difficult to adjust to the industry's fast pace and gained a reputation in the company for being aloof and ineffective. The firm's lack of basic financial controls or enough experienced managers finally proved fatal...
Among those pleased by the predominantly moderate tone of the proceedings was Beryl Sprinkel, Under Secretary of the Treasury for monetary affairs, who represented the U.S. at the session. "It is in our interest that the debtor countries adjust and grow," said he. "But we have not committed ourselves to expending vast increases in resources on their behalf, because we do not have them." Nevertheless, by pressing their interests without raising threats, the delegates may have helped to keep the debt bomb from going...
...over the side to keep the boat upright in a stiff breeze, the skipper stays tucked inside the cockpit in roughly the position of someone sitting on a chaise longue. He steers the boat with a foot bar. In addition, the mini-12s boast more sails and ways to adjust them than most small boats. Besides carrying a mainsail and a Genoa jib, a mini-12 can hoist a spinnaker, those colorful parachute-like sails flown when a ship sails downwind...
Despite the minor disruptions and moderate increases, Communications Workers President Glenn Watts called the strike a "success in every sense." The importance of the A T & T settlement lies in a set of agreements to help workers adjust to the increasingly rapid rate of economic and technological change. Said Pat Choate, a labor specialist with TRW, the defense and aerospace company: "I'd be surprised if these conditions don't become part of other contracts and even more surprised if they don't find themselves endorsed in national legislation...