Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demavend, towering 18,600 ft. high in the Elburz range north of Teheran, has long reigned in quiet white dignity. But hidden deep beneath Demavend's base, primeval subterranean fires still rage. In a few minutes, one day last week, in a gargantuan effort to adjust to the fury deep within the earth, a vast arc of the earth's crust, curving out some 250 miles on either side of Mt. Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid waste more than 100 Iranian villages in an area covering 50,000 square miles. Communications were...
Explained one Agriculture Department official last week: "Controls which were supposed to adjust production effectively have not done so. More fertilizer, more spraying, more of everything has merely increased yields per acre. It's plain we can't continue this way. Things could break wide open if changes aren't made in time...
...long time and knows exactly what he is doing. Most Othellos make the mistake of getting enraged too soon; consequently as the play progresses they try to bellow and shriek ever more loudly until the limit of intelligibility has been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy: he is "one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme." He says of his wife, for example...
...four wings cantilevered out into space. Inside are three bedrooms, a living room, family room, dining space, kitchen and two baths, with many fixtures molded into the walls and electronic aids galore ranging from a TV-type camera to see who is at the front door to pushbuttons to adjust the lavatory to a child's height. Costing $1,000,000 to plan and build, the house so far is a showcase, the company said, and no plans have yet been made to put it in production. But it estimates the house could be mass-produced for as little...
...students, most are generally content with the program. Some of those admitted from the eleventh grade comment that while it was an intellectual gain, the sudden transition from junior year to college created a difficult situation to adjust to in their social life. One of the original group of juniors comments that early admission gave him "pres...