Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parent to Parent matches Cambridge residents with their disadvantaged neighbors, helping them adjust to life in a suburban residential setting...
...during the rehearsal of a plaintive string passage in Mahler. "And then he gets stronger and stronger, and suddenly it all comes back!" When he's happy with the ways things are going, he lets the band know. "You make the music," he shouts. "I listen to it and adjust...
...calculate toward; if it can't find a way to win material, attack the king or fulfill one of its other programmed priorities, the computer drifts planlessly and gets into trouble. In the end, that may have been my biggest advantage: I could figure out its priorities and adjust my play. It couldn't do the same to me. So although I think I did see some signs of intelligence, it's a weird kind, an inefficient, inflexible kind that makes me think I have a few years left...
Last night, Proctor said that while he knew Harvard's management would not be as hierarchical, he did not know the extent to which it is decentralized or how he would adjust to it before he started working here...
Provost Albert Carnesale, who will be leading the search for Proctor's replacement, said the University had no way of knowing that Proctor would not adjust well to Harvard...