Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adjust tax credit subsidies in syndication projects to allow greater participation by "moderate income" families; indeed, redefine "moderate income" to include more working families...
...Adjust rents up instead of evicting people from subsidized housing when they start working or their income grows...
...social scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. They looked at the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history and then, says Pielke, posed the question: "If history repeats itself, and it certainly will, what might we expect?" To answer it, the researchers did not simply adjust the original damage totals for inflation. They also included data on the great increase in population, wealth and development that had occurred over the decades in the places where the storms struck...
...contract almost as often as a signature. So when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt asked--in an afterthought really--if the writer would help rework the hospital's brochures. "It was a transforming experience," Batt says. "This man arrived in tears and left feeling good that he could help...
...working. Robinson says the average length of major league games this year has dropped 7 min. in the American League, 6 min. in the National. But will top-flight major leaguers like Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch, whose at-bat rituals rival those of a Hindu mystic, really adjust to tighter limits on their behavior? Listen...