Word: adjustments
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...International Affairs Jorge Dominguez said, is that a delay in concentration choice would require departments—especially those with year-long sophomore tutorials—to change their requirements. But Dominguez said he thought the Government department, which currently requires a full year of sophomore tutorials, could adjust.“It’s nothing particularly difficult or complicated,” he said. Chair of the History Department Andrew Gordon said some members of his department have already discussed how they might respond to the proposal. One option is to add more faculty-taught seminars.After an initial...
...instance, when the male and female responses were given equal weight to adjust for different response rates, the percentage of students who disapprove of FAS members’ handling of their relationship with Summers fell from 66 percent...
...hard. We have taken on a very, very difficult challenge. I don't want to sugar-coat that. I know we're in a very difficult neighborhood. Unfortunately important things are often very difficult things to do, and it takes persistence, but it also takes adaptability, being agile, and adjust as required...
...often been noted that if Henry Ford were to come back today, he would wonder why no one had come up with a better idea than the internal combustion engine. A similar thought may occur to any visitor to a movie shoot. Dozens, maybe hundreds of technicians adjust the lights, apply the makeup and dress the set, much the way it was done almost 100 years ago. And as in D.W. Griffith's day, the film still runs through a camera, then is processed, reproduced many times and sent to theaters...
...side benefit to all this safety and speed is that the Car of Tomorrow is cheaper to run. That's because it can be adjusted to race on different kinds of tracks, which means that a single team doesn't have to enter different cars in different races. Right now, the No. 16 car that Craig Biffle drives at the .526-mile Martinsville Speedway, for instance, isn't the vehicle he drives at the 2.66-mile Talladega. The new design, however, is more generic, allowing cars to adjust for tracks by adjusting the rear wing and the front splitter...