Word: adjustment
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...them out to get used to the team and all the things that are expected,” she adds.Having already made good first impressions on their new teammates, the freshmen will now try to carry their success in training and practice over to game situations, learning how to adjust to a new level of competition from those whose skates they will one day fill for the Crimson...
...exploded for three third-period goals to cruise to a 4-1 win over the Big Green (0-1, 0-1 ECAC), Harvard sent a message that its young players can contribute when it counts.Harvard’s players also have a stronger sense for the types of adjustments that need to be made for the season to be a success.“At times, it looked like the first game of the season for both teams, execution-wise, but I knew it was going to be a tough game,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato...
...expect a do-over from the outgoing Administration, but not a paper-over that would rescue speculators. FDIC chief Sheila Bair has been pushing to use new loan-guarantee authority passed under the $700 billion banking bailout to adjust troubled homeowner mortgages. The plan would provide $50 billion from the government to be tapped as insurance for banks willing to adjust mortgages in a loss-sharing agreement. The FDIC would guarantee any losses on loans readjusted for homeowners who can show a 38% debt-to-income ratio, similar to what the FDIC worked...
However, they noted that their plans are preliminary and will need to adjust to changes in technology, economic conditions, and climate science...
...most expensive megaprojects, said Flyvbjerg, resulting in a 224 percent cost overrun. And construction of the Chunnel, a tunnel connecting Britain and France under the English Channel, caused such high cost overruns that the British economy may have been better off without it, he said. Flyvbjerg recommended that planners adjust their estimates based on budgetary overruns from similar projects in order to combat this problem. He cited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain as a successful project that resulted in a zero percent cost overrun. Jerold S. Kayden, the co-chair of the GSD’s Department of Urban...