Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race, and of human rights. The other detectives whom he encounters in the 16th Squad don't possess quite the same sensitivities. There is Seidensticker, a mammoth black man who calls Bo by his full name. Beauregard, and who is almost paternal toward him. He patiently helps Bo adjust to a job which doesn't always run parallel to written law, but Seidensticker poses an enigma to Bo because of all the detectives on the squad, he is most ruthless with blacks...
Only too late did the A.B.M.ers realize what the McGovern team was doing. They scrambled to adjust their votes to hit the twilight zone, but lacked the skill and muscle to bring it off. The women's South Carolina challenge lost by 1,555.75 (a majority of the delegates to the convention) to 1,429.05. Thus the anti-McGovernites could not raise their point of order; they had won a battle but lost the war. There was now no way to stop McGovern on California. Said Hart: "It was one of those times when politics is really fun. We played...
...students for its College of Older Americans. Like the others, Mercyhurst offers a curriculum of both cultural courses and practical advice. Not only can its students study French or art; they can also learn how to live on a fixed income, cope with the illnesses of old age and adjust emotionally to growing older...
...Area Readers will have to give the Cert's Special time to get settled before they know just what two for one has reaped. It would help readers adjust if the management did something about the new banner. Jammed in a two and a half inch space, the paper now carries the full name of both parents, an edition box, a silly little weather box with a pup and an umbrella for partly cloudy, a drenched little-leaguer for rain, and so on. Even sillier, the afternoon edition comes out with virtually the same material, but with the order...
...useful managerial tool," Dean Dunlop commented last week. He said that the formula has three major advantages: it works to prevent retiring professors from hand-picking their successors; it enables departments to adjust to changing fields of study; and, if handled properly, it creates an even age distribution in the Faculty...