Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saints, and they are subject to influences that they are not aware exist. But it is the judge's job to try to stand clear, to try not to substitute his aims for those of the people when a valid statute governs an issue, to try to adjust to the reality that richer people often have "better" lawyers. By and large, we succeed...
...officially enrolled in the Class of '83, Rivers has had to make adjustments. Dealing with Blacks from different backgrounds as well as whites here "was a real culture shock," he says. In addition, "I didn't have the apparatus to read the professional cues." Quite simply, he did not know the unwritten rules of behavior which so many students are weaned on, he says, adding that Tilman was instrumental in helping him adjust...
...real risks. Rancorous confrontations among government, business, labor and a thousand contentious factions could erupt. Warns Arizona Congressman Morris Udall: "When you get a constant pie, and when any group like the steelworkers or the longshoremen gets more, then somebody has got to get less. We have got to adjust to slower growth, and the story of the 1980s will be how we adjust...
...Yorkers, one of the most adaptable breeds of urban animals, were trying their best to adjust to living without a system that they often have trouble living with. Some 5.1 million passengers a day ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front...
...piano trio than in, say, a string quartet, because the piano and strings are a mixed marriage. The piano always threatens to be louder; its attack, sustained tones and tempered pitch all differ from those of bowed instruments. So subtly do the Beaux Arts members adjust for these vagaries that they match the interplay of the score itself, passing phrases seamlessly from one to another, ebbing and flowing naturally with the dynamic pulse. Goethe described architecture as frozen music. A Beaux Arts performance is liquid architecture...