Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society to remain permanently ahead of all the others." Furthermore, enlightened leadership should be able to detect changing realities and thus prevent a slide from turning into a crash: "The only serious threat to the real interests of the United States can come from a failure to adjust sensibly to the newer world order." Not everyone will welcome or accept Kennedy's bittersweet verdict that the U.S. may become healthier in the long run by accepting its diminishing status gracefully. But until it is convincingly refuted by other theorists or the years ahead, The Rise and Fall of the Great...
...addition, all must adjust to a new culture, a new climate and a new bureaucracy without much guidance from the University...
...pretty difficult to adjust to the cold," Ndiaye says. "The wind is extremely terrible," Mamboleo says. But Frank W. Okhwatenie, a Kenyan graduate student here on a cultural exchange program, disagrees with their opinions of the Cambridge winter. "You are very lucky in America--you have seasons," he said, "Winter...
...little attention has been paid to the Asian-American students who are performing poorly in school. Many of these are refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam who do not speak or write English well; some of them are too young to have mastered their own language. Poorly equipped to adjust to the new environment, they flounder, struggling to learn in a language and setting totally foreign to them. Recognizing the special help these refugee children need, Nhan Truong '90 has started a tutoring program, serving the refugee children of Allston-Brighton...
...Most industrial robots are blind. Just like a blind man, they do something silly when something's been moved out of place from where they expect it. With visual control the robot would be able to see where the object was and adjust," said William A. Woods, McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science...