Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesuit controversy has been simmering for years, but it came to a boil as the Second Vatican Council drew to a close. The society's superior general, John Baptist Janssens, died, and the order convened in 1965 one of its rare "general congregations," both to elect a successor and adjust its ways to the council's rapprochement with the modern world. Jesuit superiors and provincial representatives from around the world converged on Rome. The man they elected as the society's 28th general (to serve, like the Pope, for life) was a career missionary named Pedro Arrupe, the first Basque...
...decades, gross national product, the estimated money value of a nation's total output of goods and services, has been popularly accepted as the most significant gauge of prosperity. But the G.N.P. is a crude and sometimes misleading measure. As conventionally calculated, it fails to adjust for such nonmonetary penalties of industrial growth as pollution and the nightmare of city congestion, or for such additions to material well-being as the pleasure a husband derives when his wife cooks a gourmet meal instead of popping a TV dinner into the oven. Now, a more sensitive gauge has appeared...
...company's turnaround is largely the result of a reorganization that has shaped a jumble of about 200 subsidiaries into four major divisions: metals, transportation, leisure and food production. Top managers who were slow to adjust were eased out, and losing properties, notably a smorgasbord of restaurants, were dumped. During the retrenchment, Chairman Ralph E. Ablon all but halted expansion into new fields...
Some blacks who live in high stress ghetto areas learn to tolerate and to adjust passively to the media images, Pierce said...
...looking for a coach, the Department of Athletics must make sure that they do not choose a candidate who is awed by Harvard. Bob Harrison could never really adjust to Cambridge and really didn't see the Harvard student as a normal human being. Harvard students are no different than anyone else, and if a coach has a different attitude, it will only mean problems for the program...