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Word: adjustment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bench, he also plunked himself down as far away from Brown as possible. Ford, during one nationally televised game, angrily flung his arm toward Brown when the coach sent in a replacement. Simpson, an All Star at Denver before he was traded during the offseason, could not adjust to his "sixth-man" role and told reporters he wanted out. Mean while, Brown was not exactly winning friends and influencing backcourt men. Porter felt belittled by him in practice and somehow Brown contrived to irritate most everyone else on the roster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight Team, Fight, Fight, Fight! | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...much less formal: they don't want or they already have a liberal arts degree. What they do want is to acquire skills to satisfy their own creative urges or help them survive-plant-growing and plumbing, for instance." Colleges and universities will have to adjust swiftly to this developing educational market -even if tenured professors of medieval English have to be retrained to teach ceramics and auto repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Looking to the ZPGeneration | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...They needed the rest," Zivkovic said. "This way they can watch the competition and adjust their thinking and contemplate what they would do in a particular situation...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Swordsmen Easily Overwhelm Brandeis for Ninth Victory | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

Unrestricted by civil service regulations, the county commissioners enjoy wide latitude in adjusting salaries of county employees. Not surprisingly, McLaughlin and Danehy chose not to adjust salaries of county employees. Not surprisingly, McLaughlin and Danehy chose not to adjust Smith's pay ($14,700 per year) last December, when they authorized a raise for their own executive assistants to $18,500. McLaughlin argues that Smith lacks the "background" of the other two and that she functions mostly as a secretary...

Author: By Thomas A. Mullen, | Title: Fear and Loathing (Loathing Anyway) In the County Court House | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

...displays what seems to be a characteristic sense of humor; informing us, for example, that the infamous rug Whittaker Chambers alleges he gave Alger Hiss as payment from the Russians is now his prize possession. There are his own bad times too--he had to learn how to adjust to an overconcerned mother and a father in prison as well as the normal challenges of adolescence. Like his father, though, Tony Hiss says he is now a happy man. A former Crimson editor, he has been working for The New Yorker for over ten years and on the side...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: From a Son's Point of View | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

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