Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semester, or even a year later. It took, he thought, that long for your mind to digest the material and accept, on the level of faith, the concepts he was trying to put across. The same is true of other courses, and the student should have the right to adjust his test-taking...
...former clergymen, a representative sample compiled coast to coast from names supplied by agencies who help ex-priests adjust to secular life, found that their chief problems in obtaining jobs were lack of skills (28%), overcoming lack of confidence (29%) and deciding what new career to follow (47%). Although the average priest was 38 years old, only 14% found age to be a drawback. Nearly all held bachelor's or advanced degrees-four out of five in theology-but few felt that their specialized education created any employment obstacles...
...fact, the editors tend to adjust the number of printings per edition as they would a book. Historical demography does not sell as well as university politics, so circulation varies. Six months to a year after publication of Daedalus issue, a hardcover volume comes out in a series by Houghton Mifflin known as the "Daedalus library." Authors of the original Daedalus papers have the oportunity to revise their work for a second edition. Finally, six months later, Beacon Press reprints the hardcover Houghton-Mifflin work as a paperback. The cycle from paper binding to paper binding to paper binding...
...does the press adjust to the new Administration?" we asked...
Cricket Bats. A few shops now cater to left-handers who either cannot or will not adjust to a right-handed world. One of the most interesting-run by a righthander, surprisingly-is Anything Left-Handed, Ltd. in London's West End. Its director, William Gruby, 39, opened his store late last year after giving a dinner party at which he and his wife found that their four guests were all left-handed and all perfectly willing to complain bitterly about the nuisances of life in a right-handed world. Doing market research, Gruby found that shop clerks treated...