Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry stressed that "adequate provision is made for meeting most of the student's anticipated expenses for a normal four-year American degree course before he leaves Africa." This financial security enables the students to adjust more readily to college life...
...Leanness. The new, precision-tool sharpness of U.S. business shaped 1961's recession and recovery. Here the computer played two key roles: 1) it made possible more accurate and rapid forecasting of the economy's swings, and 2) it permitted businessmen to adjust their inventories more closely to those swings. Because any change in final demand is now quickly translated by computers into a rise or fall in production, businessmen can operate with leaner stocks, cut down the high costs of accumulating and warehousing inventory. And by spotting economic danger symptoms early, the computers enable business and Government...
...signals to the instruments, when exertion demands a greater blood supply. But Dr. Chardack prefers to give the physician this control. In the latest models of the Buffalo pacemaker, there is a second protuberance just underneath the skin. By simply jabbing a triangular needle into this, the physician can adjust the rate...
...almost to a man fought the Common Market right up to the moment it became fact, fearful that it would put their protected industries out of business. Monnet's answer was to bring the Market into existence gradually, reducing tariffs at easy stages to allow industries time to adjust to the new competition. It has worked surprisingly well. In Belgium, some inefficient coal mines have shut down. In France, whose industry was the most highly protected of the Six, perhaps 20% of the marginal electrical firms and 30% of the small textile shops (up to 20 employees) have shut...
...company after graduation through a summer game in which each player "runs" an imaginary plant producing "synthetic granules and bulk-oil food products." General Electric has six games going under such ear-shocking titles as Uniflo, Inven-trol and Dispatch-0. "It's really a way to adjust your mind to top management," explains one G.E. executive. "The quicker you start to think of a business problem as a thing without human beings, the bet-er you'll do." Not to be outdone, competing Westinghouse has its own game, oo. "But," says its training director, [. C. McKeon...