Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole life becomes permeated by organic chemistry. You lose your sense of humour. You adjust to a cultural vacuum. You dream about organic compounds. You hallucinate laboratories, even blackout. And you save your mind by contem-plating the nondescript charisma of your friends the poisons...
...rarely ignored. Since the I.A.C.P.'s jolting indictment of the Baltimore force in 1965, every top cop in the country has learned to judge his department in terms of not only what it has done to curb crime but, more importantly, what it should be doing to adjust to the problems of a fast-changing and impatient society...
Outside jobs are, however, permitted. Although it can mean 16-hour work- days, moonlighting reservists are commonplace, as civilians struggle to adjust their incomes to military pay scales. "I took a pay cut of $300 per month," says Specialist Four David Waters, a steel-company billing clerk now with the 151st. "Did it hurt? You better believe it." For some reservists, call-up has knocked up to $10,000 off their annual earnings. Weekdays at 5 p.m., Airman First Class Mike Fields quits the 445th Military Airlift Wing's administrative offices at Dobbins Air Force Base outside Marietta...
...area of foreign policy, Trudeau's Cabinet is already searching for new ideas. Generally, Trudeau believes that Canada ought to adjust to a role as a small power, should be more selective in its peace-keeping missions for the U.N., should seek better relations with both Latin America and, because of its bicultural policy at home, with the French-speaking states. As for U.S. investment, a perennial bugbear, Trudeau approves of it but favors keeping laws that prevent foreign subsidiaries from dominating key industries...
...Columbus Day to the second Monday in October. The bill will affect only federal workers, but it is expected that everybody else will follow suit. With this in mind, the bill's effective date is set at Jan. 1, 1971, to allow time for unions and employers to adjust salaries and contracts to the new legal holidays...