Word: adjustment
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...appears that UPS's ability to continually adjust to the economy and its ongoing evolution as a logistics provider has paid off. You may know it as an outfit that delivers the goods, but for UPS it's becoming less important that the folks in the brown trucks make the final handoff. Delivering a package efficiently is what it gets paid for. And the company is getting paid more often. "It's very rare to hear such bold statements from UPS management," says Helane Becker, transportation analyst for Jesup & Lamont Securities. "So we can take this to mean they truly...
...Growing up, I didn’t spend a lot of time in one place,” Conor says. “I had to adjust, going to different schools, having to learn a different language in Germany. We’d be back to Ontario, and I’d have my friends there, but I’d have been away for six [or] seven months when my dad was in season...It was tough adjusting to the different social settings...
...teammates and coach have been helping him to improve and realize the potential he has. They’ve worked with him to adjust his skills, style, and mental stamina to succeed as a Crimson wrestler. Particularly, his coach, Jay Weiss, and co-captain, JP O’Connor, have watched him progress...
...survey of retired New York City police supervisors, however, confirms what many skeptics have suspected for years. Pressure from the twice-weekly CompStat reviews inspired a certain amount of fudging (exactly how much is unknown). Police hunted for bargains on eBay so that they could adjust theft reports to reflect lower values of stolen goods, magically transforming major crimes into minor ones. A fight involving a weapon - aggravated assault - might become a mere fistfight by the time the police report was filed. Nevertheless, behind the gamesmanship was a genuine drop in crime. (Murder is down an astonishing 80% from...
...older tricks in the game is that if you’re worried about the way that you can match up, try to create something [so] that they’ll adjust to you,” Amaker said...