Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cornell is a better team than B.C.," sophomore midfielder Emily Stauffer said. "This game had a lot more intensity, and their style of play was tough for us to adjust to. They put a lot of people in the back, and we didn't sort out our numbers quick enough...
This is a program that has won just 10 games in the last three years and has not experienced a winning season since 1987. Many of the players were recruited to play in an offensive or defensive scheme that has since changed. People simply need more time to adjust...
...Network Appliance Box (NAB) installed last spring "has sped up our UNIX operation considerably," Steen said. "We have expanded the box and will continue to adjust the systems to make them run more smoothly...
...regulating television viewing, made possible by a new techological innovation. A device called a "V chip" may now be built in to the back of the television, allowing parents to monitor programming that comes into their homes. Each program would be tagged with a violence rating; parents would simply adjust the V chip to the level of violence they would allow...
That's the plan, at least. In practice, merging two independent space programs will not be easy. Astronauts and cosmonauts have been training at each other's facilities for nearly a year, and differences in approach have forced both sides to adjust. Language has been one problem. Another, according to Brewster Shaw, NASA's director of space-shuttle operations: "We've learned that the Russians are not as schedule-oriented as we are. Our people stand around and feel they're being slowed down a bit. [The Russians] have a different way of viewing the world than...