Word: adjustment
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Maxim number two is to ignore West Coast horses, no matter how solid they look on paper. In 91 years only one invader from California has been able to win the Derby--the great Swaps. It takes most equines quite a while to adjust from the lightning-fast strips in the West to the sandler racing surfaces in the Midwest and East...
...order to adjust to the power game Harvard coach Jack Barnaby has been practicing his team on hard courts where he held a series of test matches to decide the "fast surface lineup...
When and if the Caspian closes down, the world's high livers will have to adjust their taste buds to Canadian caviar -a slightly sweeter version that currently sells fresh for about $20 a pound (v. about $50 a pound for fresh Russian caviar). But even this supply is limited. Canadian industrial growth may limit it still more, and the taste of the tiny grey fish eggs exploding on the tongue may soon be a fading memory...
...when as little as 2% of the work force will be employed, warn that the whole concept of people as producers of goods and services will become obsolete as automation advances. Even the most moderate estimates of automation's progress show that millions of people will have to adjust to leisurely, "nonfunctional" lives, a switch that will entail both an economic wrench and a severe test of the deeply ingrained ethic that work is the good and necessary calling...
Liberated Brainpower. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, each major technological advance has caused unemployment, but society has somehow managed on each occasion to adjust and go forward. If the new technology eliminates many of the jobs that man has been accustomed to doing, it is also bound to expand greatly the level and variety of human wants. If U.S. farms had never mechanized, for instance, and thus displaced a large pool of labor, the U.S. would have been hard pressed for workers to develop its present industrial might. Says Dr. Yale Brozen, a University of Chicago economist: "Society uses whatever...