Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells anything to transfers. Harvard does really almost nothing to help people adjust. I felt left out on my own--I wasn't prepared for that," Bean says. "I think it should be made clear that resources are available, but no effort was made...
...says he was also surprised by the small effort he feels was made to help transfer students adjust...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate Finance Committee Thursday that the Consumer Price Index should be adjusted downward, and called for the creation of an independent commission to monitor future increases. Greenspan, who has long pushed for an adjustment to the CPI, told Senators he fully agreed with a December report that the index was overestimating inflation by 1.1 percentage points annually, an error that will cost the government $1 trillion over the next 12 years in cost-of-living increases and lost tax revenue. "Greenspan has been pushing for an adjustment to the CPI for years...
...labor law highly favorable to employers that passed Parliament in their absence. In a meeting with opposition leaders, President Kim Young-Sam offered the two sides the opportunity to reach a compromise of their own. The law, passed December 26, gives employers more freedom to lay off employees, adjust their hours and hire replacements for strikers, while delaying for up to five years the right to form multiple unions, making the confederations illegal. Leaders of those unions did their part for peace Saturday, ordering a temporary halt to protests that has eased tensions and made Monday's talks possible...
...cool guy," Gates recalls. "He gave me books to read after each session, Freud stuff, and I really got into psychology theory." After a year of sessions and a battery of tests, the counselor reached his conclusion. "You're going to lose," he told Mary. "You had better just adjust to it because there's no use trying to beat him." Mary was strong-willed and intelligent herself, her husband recalls, "but she came around to accepting that it was futile trying to compete with...