Word: adjustments
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...handicapping a horse race, and the field is deep but without a clear favorite. Although John Paul personally selected all but three of the 117 voting Cardinals, don't expect a clone of the departed Pontiff. The outcome is often an expression of a pent-up desire to adjust the church's compass, however subtly. That said, the Italian members of the Sacred College had established, before the ascension of the Polish Karol Cardinal Wojtyla in 1978, a 456-year tradition of selecting from among themselves. Though the percentage of electors from Italy has plummeted from the 33% who helped...
...Rincon Mountains. At night the stars shine brightly without competition from human lighting. Paul, 68, a semiretired software developer, gets all the hiking and bike riding he wants, and Carolyn attends lectures to learn how to grow desert plants in their yard. "You have to learn to adjust in the desert," says Carolyn...
...coming to Harvard has been a huge transition for Taylor. Along with dealing with all the problems freshmen face during their first year of college—making new friends, eating cafeteria food, and doing his own laundry—Taylor has also had to adjust to playing a very different style of hockey...
...Against Mercyhurst, Nicole [Corriero] was more open so I was working the puck and giving it to Nicole,” Vaillancourt said. “But then you need to adjust. If they take Nicole, then you need to shoot on the net, and that's what I did today, I shot more...
...Chertoff, 51, has started off with big ambitions, general and specific both. He's ordered a full-scale, 60- to 90-day review of the Department of Homeland Security. He says he plans to define its mission then adjust its operations accordingly, without regard for the existing structure. That would represent a break from the slow, evolutionary change that is the norm among Washington bureaucracies. Getting particular, Chertoff wants to bring common sense to three areas: how to spend homeland security money so it's concentrated on places terrorists are most likely to hit instead of all across the country...