Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest affection is reserved for his title character, Erica (Jill Clayburgh), a Vassar-educated 37-year-old who suddenly loses her seemingly devoted husband of 16 years (Michael Murphy) to a younger woman. For the first time, Erica is without a man, and she must learn how to adjust. Eventually she does, but not without the help of a therapist and a new lover, an artist played by Alan Bates. By the end, Erica has arrived at a state of hard-won feminist bliss...
Harvard was never able to harass the Lions' deliberate, patterned offense sufficiently. "They handle the ball well and we had to adjust to their style of play," McLaughlin said. Cy Booker led the cagers with 12 points, while Brian Banks chipped in 10. Bob Hooft scored 11 points but rode the pine most of the second half. Playmaker Fine, after being tapped for last week's All-ECAC team, failed to score...
This is the second time in the past week that Harvard has had to adjust its hockey schedule to constraints caused by the blizzard of last Monday. The two postponements leave the icemen in the unenviable position of having to play their last seven games of the season in 15 days...
...year, the largest number of Americans to find jobs in any year since World War II. But department officials also explained that the December drop in unemployment is not as big as it looks. Reason: the Government recalculated unemployment figures for all of 1977, using new data to adjust for seasonal fluctuations. The department now estimates that the jobless rate hit a high of 7.6% last February-not 7.5%, as it believed at the time -and then declined gradually through the summer and fall. For example, the department reported the November rate to be 6.9%, but now thinks...
Harvard administrators said this week they tried to resist the change because they believe it will increase athletic competition among freshmen, making it harder for them to adjust to college life...