Word: readjusted
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...very least, such a conference could readjust the values of major currencies in a noncrisis atmosphere. It could also make some important technical adjustments in money-trading rules. One might be to widen the fluctuations in currency prices that central banks can permit-perhaps a rise from the present 1% to 5% above or below official value. Flows of speculative money have become so large that the 1% limit has become unrealistic and a breeder of crises instead of a stabilizer...
...long produced grain surpluses-including the U.S.-to re-examine their own agricultural policies. As rice-rich Thailand has already discovered, the markets for rice are rapidly disappearing, while many wheat-importing countries may soon be producing surpluses of their own. The fact that Washington may eventually have to readjust acreage allotments and agricultural subsidies as a result...
...vibrating alphabet unit, while using his other hand to scan the line of print with a probe that picks up and transmits the image of each letter Should the probe wander off the printed line, the lack of vibrations on the pin unit tells the reader to readjust...
...large greenhouse. The hospital saves a lot of money this way; the pay is low, but for a patient living in the hospital, five dollars a week is plenty of spending money. Furthermore, having a job within the hospital is one of the best ways to help someone readjust gradually to the life they will have when they leave. In fact, the degree to which the hospital gets around its limitations is phenomenal...
Coming to Harvard represented a big hockey adjustment for Bruce. The best Junior A teams could handily beat the best Eastern college teams. Used to Bobby Orr, it was hard for Durno to readjust to the much slower American hockey. As a result he was over-reacting to many shots in his freshman season. Coach Kinasewich, who also came from Canada, played a major part in helping Bruce make this readjustment...