Word: adjustments
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...Bobos,” ultimate fulfillment comes through work. What you do defines who you are, and as a consequence people find themselves working harder and longer at jobs they care more about. College, for young Bobos, is a period during which we can adjust ourselves to the idea of a work-centered life, consoling ourselves with the thought that when we graduate, we will be doing something we love. (I, for instance, love living under a bridge and having little earning power. That’s why I chose to concentrate in the humanities.) Yet while this is certainly...
Some U.S. troop commanders also foresee an indefinite dependence. "When we can adjust and withdraw [from Babil province] is really conditions-based," says Colonel Thomas James, refusing to speculate on a date. Despite this, James, like many of his high-ranking colleagues, insisted that the focus should be on progress made. "Four years after my first deployment, it's amazing to see how much progress has been made," he said. But with the American praise of Iraqi troop performance far outshining the reality on the ground, it seems unlikely that Iraqi forces will be able to catch up with their...
...mingled with the hardship of wearing last season’s heels). The second-story peristyle provided the backdrop for gowned and tuxedoed couples to make dramatic poses between the arches, to see and be seen. Upstairs, a senior in a tight scarlet dress balanced on one foot to adjust her shoe as she stared at Albert Bierstadt’s 1863 “Lander’s Peak.” It was American manifest destiny at its finest: a ray of sunlight bursting through the clouds above a towering range of imaginary mountains. Her date slouched against...
...flow of things.“Once you step on the field, football’s the same,” Brown, the new Parma quarterback, said. “It makes it instinctual.”That instinct will be advantageous to the three Panthers as they adjust to playing alongside men who are working full-time jobs instead of devoting their extra hours to two-a-days and watching film. “Over here, [football’s] not taken quite as seriously as it was in college,” Tully said. “It?...
...permitted for part of the year in adjoining Heilongjiang province and some Oroqen still head to the mountains to poach, hunting is vanishing as a way of life. For a people whose culture is based on the nomadic pursuit of game, the effect has been devastating. "They can't adjust to the rhythm of modern life," says Baiyaertu's son Bai Ying, 46, who works as a painter and cultural researcher in Beijing. "They can't farm, so they drink every...