Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fernandez: Schools Must Adjust...
Hillary has yet to adjust to the notion that every waking moment of a First Lady -- and some of the sleeping ones -- is public property. Friends say Hillary fenced off a park of privacy right after the notorious broadcast of 60 Minutes, when almost every frame of tape showing her at her best was left on the cutting-room floor. After that, friends say, she adopted the attitude that the less of her that is known, the less there is for the press to pick apart. She is jealous of her husband's privacy as well, complaining that...
...took the Crimson an inning-and-a-half to adjust to a harsh and cold 30-mile-per-hour wind that was blowing in from right field--a wind that made Soliders Field feel and look like San Francisco's Candlestick Park...
...replace those guys," McCann said. "Next year, we just have to adjust and become a better-balanced team...
Trillin candidly describes his own fumbling attempts to adjust: "I was remarkably easy to fool." Others, like Denny, never found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...