Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...played a much better match this Friday than we had last week,” co-captain Chelsea Ono Horn said. “Back-to-back is a fun opportunity. We changed some things up to adjust to the Dartmouth offense because they’re a really quick team with a good setter...
However, we adjust the influence of the social environment on the basis of how we perceive the people around us. So if an obese person is helping himself to a large portion, I'll hold back a bit because, well, I see the ultimate results of his eating habits and don't want the stigma associated with being overweight. But if the thin person eats a lot, why shouldn't I follow suit? If she can gorge herself and still keep trim...
...Reading gives us a chance to live other lives, to experience things we otherwise wouldn’t have, to make mistakes on the page so that we don’t have to make them in real life. In this way, we leave the novel, letting our eyes adjust to the light of the real, changed, with a new experience doing its work in us that will effect us for the rest of our lives. We leave our reading experience, ourselves enhanced...
...were really proud of our second half, but we need to learn how to play a complete game at a good tempo,” Goodman-Bacon said. “Yale came out looking strong, and it definitely took us a while to adjust. We are going to have to get better at that throughout the season...
...have lots of ideas about how the business world should adjust its language to better connect with the public. Instead of promoting "manufacturing," industrial companies should talk about "technology and innovation." Many grocery shoppers would be more drawn to "homegrown, all-natural" food than "organic" food. One company that seems to always get it right is Apple. They understand the America of the 21st century better than any company I know. A CEO that gets it and communicates in the language of the 21st century; a marketing and advertising campaign that focuses on the products, not on the models...