Word: adjustments
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...only thing in town," she says. "Just one culture is not enough these days." Catherine Rubbens, 34, an environmental consultant in London who left the Netherlands after high school, speaks five European languages and says she feels more European than Dutch. "I notice as I start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that place." Rubbens belongs to a distinct class of young Europeans: mobile, multilingual professionals who live, work and play outside their native countries and who bounce across borders - for business or pleasure. To be sure, the advent of such transplants...
Both teams struggled to adjust to the larger ice surface, but adaptation proved the key to survival and advancement in the tournment. A third period adjustment by Miller made the difference; Charlie Darwin would have been proud...
...hearing aids work is far more important than how they look. Traditional analog aids are technologically the simplest--and the least expensive. They enable the user to adjust the volume of incoming sounds. The newer, programmable analog aids are pricier, but they can be digitally programmed--and reprogrammed as hearing loss progresses--to accommodate individual patterns of hearing loss as well as different listening environments. Fully digital aids offer the greatest flexibility and precision. But the more expensive digitals are not necessarily better for everyone. "Digital aids have gotten a lot of press, but there's little hard research that...
Even after a hearing aid is selected, programmed and fitted, a good audiologist will urge patients to return for adjustment and counseling. "Fitting hearing aids is a process, not an event. They're not like a pair of shoes or glasses, where you put them on and walk out," says audiology professor Rezen. "You have to go back and give the audiologist feedback so that they can adjust them. And hearing aids take learning; they take getting used...
...freshmen have been the main fillers of these roles, jumping into their respective places on the team. As such a large part of the team, the freshmen have little margin for error and few games to adjust to college softball...