Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretzels & Pin Setters. A big reason behind the market's rise is U.S. industry's proved ability to adjust itself to changing times, turn out new products and create new markets. Under dynamic management, many a company has diversified so fast that it has not even found time to change its name to keep pace with its progress. Examples: Minnesota Mining (up 55%) moved from fluorspar to Scotch tape, now makes recording tape to boot; American Machine & Foundry Co. (up 26%), which started out making cigar machinery, now produces everything from bowling pin setters to tie-stitching machines...
...Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments . . . It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal...
Bard's courses are divided into four divisions: languages and literature; social sciences; the arts; and the natural sciences. Within these divisions, because of Bard's small size, it is possible to adjust offerings to the educational needs and interests of the students then in residence at the college...
...case of non-immigrants such as students who seek to adjust their status in order to remain in the U.S., immigration officers often advise applicants to wait before applying, so as to retain present status until they stand a better chance of getting approval when a quota opening would be likely...
...Psychiatrist William C. Menninger gave this prescription for a graceful old age: begin preparing for it in childhood. The ability to adjust happily to other people is established in youngsters, often for the rest of their lives...