Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ellen Harvey '89, originally from England, said that Americans' friendliness generally makes it easy to adjust to life at Harvard. She did say, though, that some remarks which in the U.S. are considered polite would elsewhere be rude...
...Harvard, the test is to adjust from playing a highly motivated mediocre team in the first half of its season opener against Columbia Saturday and a hapless mediocre team in the second half...
Many of the bureaucrats who run state-owned industries have been slow or reluctant to adjust to the new economic climate. As a result, almost a year after the introduction of the urban reforms, China's success stories remain largely rural: almost all the rich wanyuanhu (literally "10,000-yuan households"--roughly $3,510) are in the countryside, as are nine out of ten private enterprises. "Yet without the urban reforms," says a Western diplomat, "the rest of Deng's program will eventually fail...
...teams exchanged turnovers as the Lions' momentum slowed and the Crimson offense began to adjust to the new Columbia defense introduced by Garrett...
Union Carbide's long-term woes stem partly from its slowness to adjust to a slump in the chemicals business, particularly in petroleum-based products. The company's financial performance has lagged behind such rivals as Du Pont and Monsanto for the past several years. To perk up profits, Union Carbide is expected to put less emphasis on petrochemicals so that it can concentrate on its more successful business lines, including industrial gases (nitrogen, argon, oxygen) and consumer products (Eveready batteries, Glad bags, Prestone antifreeze...