Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apprehend the peculiarities of Soviet society. For Correspondent Schecter, working in Moscow meant learning how to make the most of his mamka (KGB-planted Russian journalists assigned to "assist" foreign newsmen) while cultivating nonofficial sources and picking up dissident tracts at park-bench meetings. The children had to adjust to the strict and dogmatic school system: Second-Grader Kate, for example, was taught that the light bulb and locomotive had been invented by Russians. They also found themselves-and their chewing gum and felt-tipped pens-the objects of envy and curiosity. The most difficult task for the whole family...
Illegal Unions. In order to revive its economy, Spain needs an infusion of investment capital, but it is unlikely to get it until inflation is brought down. To that end, Villar Mir now says, "salaries and wages must rigorously adjust their expansion to increases in the cost of living." But that policy is easier to state than follow...
...curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different-shaped handles located away from the water source so that the soap-blinded bather can adjust water temperatures by feel...
...disease, phlebitis, pulmonary edema and kidney failure. Even in conservative Catholic Spain, some questioned whether the 32 attending doctors might have striven too earnestly to keep the failing dictator alive. His nephew Nicolás Franco answered: "I think it was constructive. It gave Spain time to adjust to the idea that we would be without...
...School Council, said yesterday the council feels the first semester of the first year at Law School is "The only semester in which the student has no opportunity to sit in on faculty-taught small groups--there's no one there to advise him or help him adjust...