Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological strain is hardest on middleaged, upper-middle-income executives, who felt wedded to their companies and drew strong creative satisfactions from their jobs. Corporate managers find it even harder to adjust to unemployment than do entrepreneurs. Says Ari Kiev, a Manhattan psychiatrist: "Managers are probably more dependent persons who often tie up their whole lives with the corporation. When unemployed, they feel abandoned and have nothing to fall back upon. But entrepreneurs, however devastated by unemployment, are more flexible, more self-reliant." One of his patients, an unemployed entrepreneur, went out and found a job as a cab driver...
...also had trouble practicing on the beam [at Hemenway] because it rattles and we can't adjust it to practice the difficult moves at a lower height," Malkia added...
...commission has already asked Gov. Phillip W. Noel to enforce its ruling by withholding $600,000 in aid to Brown's medical school and $100,000 in state scholarship funds until the school complies with the commission's order which calls upon Brown to adjust Thompson's current salary, as well as compensating her for lost earnings...
...bearings, drops to a crouch, and challenges the shooter to make the first move. He also flips to the right page in his mental book on players and recalls data on their habitual skating patterns. In the second or two that all this is going on, Parent begins to adjust his position to cut down the angle attackers have to shoot for open space in the net. Part geometry, part instinct, the tactic of "playing the angles" is Parent's greatest talent on the ice. "When he's doing it right," says Flyer Coach Fred Shero, "Bernie...
...people participating 93 per cent voted for some change in the present menu selection. CHUL decided to hold an official referendum after the start of the experimental program to give undergraduates a chance to evaluate the changes fairly, and to give the Food Services a chance to adjust to the new menu system...