Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ends by a partitioning, Rhee will have to adjust the South Korean economy so that it can get along without its "better half"--North Korea. During their 40-year occupation, the Japanese made Korea into a prosperous satellite. North Korea became an industrial area, while the South was mostly agricultural. Since 1945 when an Allied military agreement established the partition, South Koreans have lacked sufficient consumer goods, water power, coal, and fertilizer...
...reduction of running life. A missile must be dependable, but it does not have to be built (like an airplane engine) so well that it will last for thousands of hours. In most cases a few minutes or hours is all the life it needs. When designers and manufacturers adjust their thinking to take advantage of this fact, great savings will result. One authority believes that if all possible savings are realized, a guided missile will cost only one-tenth as much as an airplane built for comparable duty...
...frontier settled down, they too began to build stone churches with stained-glass windows, and adjust their forms and liturgies to the traditional patterns of the middle class. Gradually a new, American kind of Protestantism came into being, a blur of church and sect, of institutionalism and enthusiasm, still bearing the tolerant, "do-gooding," democratic marks of the frontier...
...order to adjust scholarship applications to the University's recently announced 15 percent rent increase, Monro has been negotiating with Housemasters to get information he needs to deal with specific cases...
Buck noted that the new budget, contrary to the measures of some colleges, will adjust to new sizes in the student body without injuring in the least the essence of the educational system, the permanent faculty...