Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife disowned me. Nobody likes what I did. Nobody likes what I am. They would mutilate me in such a way, and they would want the whole world to see it to put fear in people. I took a whole family down, you know. But I'm trying to adjust to a legitimate life. I could go out and steal and set somebody up just like that ((snaps fingers)), but I can't take the chance. I wouldn't last too long in jail. So I'm working. And I'd like to get a house, fix it up, sell...
...Jews." Although the massive influx of Soviet Jews has overwhelmed the nation's resources, unemployment among the Ethiopians is lower than the national average, largely because of their willingness to take menial jobs. "We don't have doctors or lawyers," says Elazar. "We just need time to adjust...
...have a feeling that it sort of goes in cycles," Ratner says. "My fear is that students are beginning to adjust to a certain intransigense by the administration...
...despite his amazing ability to adjust to college life and to juggle his past with his present, Fauth seems to make himself difficult for the outsider to understand. He admits that his parents were "disappointed" when he decided to come to Harvard--being a government major did not help his situation with them, for, as Fauth says, they preached "political non-involvement." But in a monotone, Fauth states that father and mother "basically just accepted...
SINCE THE 1950s, the 23 colleges that make up the Ivy Overlap Group have met annually to adjust financial aid packages for students who applied to more than one member of the group. Last month, the Overlap schools decided not to hold their annual meeting...