Word: adjustment
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...showed off their largest machinery ever, including a 530-horsepower tractor and a combine that costs $410,000 fully equipped. At the Firestone tent, a rep said the company is preparing a 91-in. (230 cm) farm tire, taller than Yao Ming. TopCon Precision Agriculture exhibited GPS gadgets that adjust your spraying and watering according to the topography of your fields and can even steer your tractor. ADM Financial advisers showed how to hedge risk in futures markets, while a lecturer at Monsanto's Biofuture tent touted drought-tolerant corn: "We're in a brand-new world here, folks...
...year is critical for Wal-Mart: it must deliver on the promises made to Wall Street. In its struggles, Wal-Mart faintly resembles another company that once ruled retailing from a central HQ. Sears, Roebuck grew fat supplying rural and small-town America, but ultimately its culture couldn't adjust to shopping-mall America or to discounters. Shoppers today have little idea how awesome was the power of the Chicago merchant. And before Sears there was the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the A&P, an urban power that once ran nearly 16,000 U.S. stores. Competitors quaked before...
...classes at the beginning of the semester because of the advice of her tutor, who was also helpful in helping pick a concentration, she said. Long criticized by students, Harvard’s advising system has seen some reform in recent years. College officials said they will continue to adjust the program as it becomes clear which aspects work best and which can be improved. To that end, the Advising Programs Office is collaborating with a student advisory panel, the FAS Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling, and a dozen sophomore advising coordinators, Johnson said. The office also plans...
...classes at the beginning of the semester because of the advice of her tutor, who was also helpful in helping pick a concentration, she said. Long criticized by students, Harvard’s advising system has seen some reform in recent years. College officials said they will continue to adjust the program as it becomes clear which aspects work best and which can be improved. To that end, the Advising Programs Office is collaborating with a student advisory panel, the FAS Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling, and a dozen sophomore advising coordinators, Johnson said. The office also plans...
...Democrats haven't abandoned that strategy - one way or another a change will be forced by next spring, he says, when the money starts dwindling for the troops. Republican Senators, he argues, "won't buy into exactly what we're pushing but they will insist that the President will adjust his policy...