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Word: adjustment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overall the Crimson appeared to adjust to the less-than-favorable conditions better than the Polar Bears, whose short-wall passes were not as effective as Harvard's long chip shots...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Down Bears | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...over his agents in Frankfurt, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore, contacting his team almost instantly to find out who is buying, where and why. Such intelligence enables the bank to be extremely precise in its own actions. Says Schreiber: "Even after we submit written bids, we usually adjust them by a few cents via Telex right down to the deadline." At the U.S. Treasury auction last month, Dresdner's bid came in just high enough to win, and a Swiss competitor's offer failed by only 20? per oz. One clear moral: private investors who hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lift for the Bullion Boom | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...cluster in California and the Gulf Coast region of Texas, are given free English lessons and job training, and access to Medicaid and welfare. Nine major voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Protestant Church World Service, match arrivals with reliable sponsors who will help them adjust to their new life. The U.S. gives the voluntary agencies $350 per refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Not-So-Promised Land? | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...people, and even if you never stop moving around there'll be things that you miss, or will want to miss. There are, of course, several ways to cope with Freshman Week, and the pattern you choose will depend on your attitude coming in and how quickly you can adjust to a rather odd situation...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Six Ways to Survive | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Americans wistfully ask. Nostalgia, of course, obscures the tremendous dissension and even hatred that were aimed at F.D.R. in the White House. Still, figures of his size may now be obsolete. The era of great individualists came to an end with Lyndon Johnson, and we are still trying to adjust to the new reality. Johnson lost two wars?the one in Viet Nam and the one against poverty; he demonstrated, among other things, that the resources of the U.S. are finite, a new and chastening realization for Americans. It was with L.B.J. that the U.S. crisis of leadership began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cry for Leadership | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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