Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horton and his linemates had to adjust to a faster, less hard hitting brand of hockey when they arrived at Harvard. "There's a lot more contact in the play I was accustomed to," Horton said. "Here I was hampered by the fact that I'm not a naturally graceful skater...
...face the fact that the energy shortage is permanent," he said. "There is no way we can solve it quickly. But if we all cooperate and make modest sacrifices, if we learn to live thriftily and remember the importance of helping our neighbors, then we can find ways to adjust and to make our society more efficient and our own lives more enjoyable and productive...
...best newspaper has just restyled itself as the New New York Times; and when so pivotal an institution changes, something important is being said about American journalism. It is as if a dignified old lady, much revered in her own stately way but feeling a little dowdy, decided to adjust to the newer fashions-without tarting herself up too much. The change so far is one of personality, but it could become unintentionally a change of character...
...high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say, "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles...
...their historic furlongs, acres, bushels and pecks for the more rational, if less poetic meters, hectares and liters. Some conversions, though, will be learned more quickly than others: getting a traffic ticket for driving 50 miles per hour in a 50 kilometer-per-hour zone will probably help drivers adjust to the new system. And a few changes will be happy ones. Leon Jaroff, editor of the Science and Medicine sections, reminds us that "if your weight is 166 lbs., the scale will read only 76 kilograms. That somehow makes it less disturbing...