Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against the sorry state of political discourse. There is plenty of toleration for error in an entertaining, "show-biz" format, but little tolerance or patience with truth. Steele, famous for one, thin, bestseller, "The Content of Our Character," said the difficulties of Blacks today result from "a failure to adjust to freedom" and repeatedly denounced policies like affirmative action as "preferences...
...added that she will delay her departure as long as possible so she can help her successor adjust to the job. But office insiders have said in recent interviews that news of Patrick's imminent departure has already hurt office morale and touched off a minor exodus from the sixth-floor of Holyoke Center...
...difficulties which Blacks face are a result of "a failure to adjust to freedom" after 300 years of slavery and oppression, according to Steele, who is Black. These problems are still discussed "as if they were the result of oppression...
...film is not an easy one to view; it might alienate some spectators at the beginning. However, it quickly and forcefully draws its audience in. After their eyes adjust to the blue, the viewers willingly surrender their feelings and rejoice at the crystalline brilliance of Jarman's words. Although the text--based on the director's journal--is the most apparent component of the film, "Blue" is more than words and music: the unchanging blue screen is fundamental to the strange and powerful impact of the piece...
While Clinton has made accommodations to his staff's wishes, the staff has also learned to adjust to him. "Rather than fighting it," explained an official, "we realized we ought to be figuring out a way to make it work." First staff members placed a four-layered team of personal minders on Clinton to keep him on schedule. Next they moved many of his public events out of the Oval Office and the Roosevelt Room, where he was inclined toward harmful kibitzing, and into more formal settings in the East Room and Rose Garden. "When he stands up," noted...