Word: adjustments
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...years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike. Canal building requires tricky engineering over obstacles like hills; the typical solution is a lock, which fills or empties to adjust water height. On Britain's southernmost canal - the 140-km Kennet and Avon, linking the town of Reading on the Thames to the seaport of Bristol - travelers will encounter dozens of locks, often close together, as in the impressive flight of 16 built in 1810 to climb Caen Hill near...
...staple of Harvard hockey has always been that we don’t adjust our style of play for other teams,” Ruggiero said. “But everyone will be aware when those three are out there...
...Cornell and Columbia are both physical and scrappy teams,” co-captain Hana Peljto said. “Our plan this weekend is to react and adjust better to the defenses that are thrown at us than we did last time we played these teams...
...though Lafayette attempted to adjust following the intermission, Peljto—who was subsequently named Ivy League Player of the Week for her performance—was just getting started...
Even nursing homes are finding they must adjust to late-blooming love and its attendant complexities. In a forthcoming book, Stella Henry, a Los Angeles geriatric nurse and bioethicist, describes the very different family reactions to a romance between two pseudonymous residents--Jack, 92, and Jill, 86--in a Los Angeles-area long-term-care facility. While the man's family gave its blessings, the woman's relatives were appalled. Henry, reflecting the enlightened view of a new generation of caregivers, is sympathetic to late-December pairings as long as both partners still have their wits and the relationship doesn...