Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politically," Kreps considers herself a moderate in economics. She would prefer, for example, that "the forces of competition resolve unemployment to the greatest extent possible, rather than have government do it." Kreps believes that businesses in the future may have to give more time off to employees in midcareer, adjust to the needs of working women, and cope with the problems of early retirement...
...sent to a committee") and an estimated 970,38 enthusiastic members in 17,3 countries. They have dinners, annual meetings ("If you don't have anything to do, do it with style") and seminars ("Bureaucrats never change the course of the ship of state, they simply adjust the compass"), and occasionally present learned treatises among themselves ("On Capturing the Bold Spirit of Irresolution...
Tape up, get the pads in place, adjust that chin strap and now it's out to the field. Sweat, breathe deep, hit those dummies harder--inside, keep the runner to the inside. How many times are you going to have to be told...
Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and chairman of the committee, said yesterday if the Faculty decides to adopt the measure, it will have to do so before Christmas to allow the University time to adjust its schedule to the change...
There's no reason to think the sport as a whole won't be able to adjust, but that's not much consolation to the poorer teams. The Orioles operate under the tightest budget in the major leagues, but still need to make the playoffs to do more than break even. They're doomed because they have never, and will never, draw more than 1.2 million fans...