Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from any of the other tenants and she wasn't backed up by the rest of the Committee for the Elderly chanting or carrying signs but she was perhaps...
...there's more to football than meets the eye, I've learned, especially my eye. Yesterday the word was going around that Harvard had thrown a variety of defenses at Princeton which had totally confused the boys. The Tigers just couldn't adjust, and Harvard took advantage. So the Crimson deserves some credit for the interceptions; it wasn't just because of lousy passing. This ability to confuse Rod Plummer and Tim Testerman is particularly satisfying after last year's debacle in the Stadium. Quarterback Scott MacBean came to the line, read Harvard's defense, and then called the appropriate...
...routine procedure, it entails an unusual risk along the Russian-Turkish border. The Soviets sometimes adjust their own, usually stronger beacons to the same frequency as those across the border. In fact, the U.S. is convinced that at least once, in 1959, they deliberately overrode a signal from Turkey to lure a U.S. military transport across the border and attack it. That incident took 17 U.S. lives...
...people who daydream about becoming system saboteurs. Author Hatch has helped his story by including a fine short course on the myths and truths about jet planes, their noise and their impact on human beings. One old saw neatly skewered: the aviation industry's contention that man can adjust to any noise level. That is simply medically false. In response to such facts, sufferers of noise pollution can only sound a loud "Hear! Hear...
...effectively those present staff members who leave us in June 1971 to find the best possible jobs. In this cycle of sessions I am interested in the special problems of each department, what each can do to raise additional funds, to use restricted funds for more general purposes, to adjust courses and teaching methods and to eliminate least desirable expenditures in order to achieve higher order priorities...