Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moreover, Solomon contends, the shift in rates is not that great. For example, though the dollar has slipped roughly 10% against the yen in recent weeks, it is down only 3% against the mark and a mere 1% in relation to other currencies. Says Solomon: "The world can certainly adjust to changes of this magnitude without throwing the monetary system into chaos." Indeed, by week's end the money markets had calmed down somewhat, and the dollar was on the rise-but for how long is anybody's guess...
...they accept a certain number of applicants from geographical areas when everybody I wanted was from one or two places. Then I realized there was never any way I was ever going to be able to push the people I wanted into Harvard, so I just had to adjust." By the time Gambril had adjusted he had decided the picking were better at Alabama, and was off to Tuscaloosa...
Other megabuckers have not had breathing space to adjust to the reality of wealth. Laments Harriet Selwyn, 46, who built her California fashion firm Fragments into a million-a-year enterprise last year (TIME, Feb. 21): "One really needs two lives. One to get to the top. The other to enjoy...
...didn't try to ignore Todd. he and their third roommate, Mark--a very normal sort of fellow--did their best to help Todd adjust to living away from home. They took him to parties and out to play frisbee, and generally tried to include him in most of their activities...
Helping disgruntled sophomores adjust to life at the Quad is a major concern of the Quad House masters. "It's going to be very hard," Hanna Hastings, co-master of North House, admits. Hastings and co-master J. Woodland Hastings hope to sponsor more House activities and they are adding three more tutors to the present staff to cover more areas of interest. And the Hastings plan to participate wholeheartedly in House life. "We certainly will continue to be very visible and to be as active as we can," she says...