Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going at top volume. I bet most of the players didn't even look up. They thought it was just another special effect." Exposure to Pac Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders produced one adverse reaction. Says Holmes: "In most games and sports, you learn teamwork and how to adjust to the strengths and weaknesses of others, attributes that serve you well the rest of your life. Video games do not seem to produce any transferable skills." Ainslie disagrees: "While most people over 30 are somewhat intimidated by computers," he says, "the younger game players accept them as tools...
...CORNELL--This is a team that may mature quickly and go all the way. "It takes some time to adjust from high school to college hockey," says coach Dick Bertrand, who is dressing nine freshmen. "I don't really see us getting going until the middle of January." But Darren Eliot and Bryan Hayward are back in goal, Roy Kerling, Jeff Baikie and others return up front, and Bertrand could be pleasantly surprised if his timetable is moved up and the Big Red catches fire early...
...daughters. Twenty years ago, for example, the grandparents insisted that a chaperone accompany Uva and Jorge when they went out, but now Uvi is permitted to go on dates without one. Even Uva and Jorge are sometimes divided over U.S. manners and mores. "Cuban men find it difficult to adjust their machismo to allow their women to work," says Uva. "This has been tough on Jorge, but he has adjusted...
Most tenants "adjust fairly readily to the conversion process," the study finds. "Most are able to find replacement housing within two month, and the majority report that their new accommodations are actually superior to their old units," the report states, adding, however, that "elderly and low-income tenants clearly have special needs...
...Today's women won't find anything that hard to adjust to in the military. It's the males-you're talking about reconditioning the human male to accept a woman as a wife and mother and at the same time as a fighting partner...