Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common worry is that it will be difficult to readjust to college life after returning to Harvard...
...that moment, it all seemed so simple: we just needed to readjust our admissions policy to account for the severe and socially irresponsible deficiency of impulsive and excitable human beings in the Harvard-Radcliffe community. A little affirmative action, so to speak--to be maintained just so long as representation remained unbalanced--and we'd be all set. Harvard would become the novelty-seeking party scene it always had the potential...
...with his newfound life. "I ran up all these charges on credit cards thinking that I would not be around to pay them," he says. Not only does he now have to figure out how to retire his debt, but he and his life partner have to readjust to the idea that they may grow old together. "You feel dazed being back in society again," he says. "People don't know what you've been through...
...after Digital Equipment's No. 2 executive stepped down citing poor results, the computer company announced it would cut 7,000 of its 60,900 jobs as part of a $475 million restructuring. Digital, which made its mark in the minicomputer market, is struggling as it tries to readjust to the PC and high-powered work station market. The company underwent an extensive restructuring in 1994. In the first quarter of this year, beset by bloated inventories, depressed sales and price cuts, Digital's PC division saw revenues fall by 10 percent. The events of the last two days raise...
...after Digital Equipment's No. 2 executive stepped down citing poor results, the computer company announced it would cut 7,000 of its 60,900 jobs as part of a $475 million restructuring. Digital, which made its mark in the minicomputer market, is struggling as it tries to readjust to the PC and high-powered work station market. The company underwent an extensive restructuring in 1994. In the first quarter of this year, beset by bloated inventories, depressed sales and price cuts, Digital's PC division saw revenues fall by 10 percent. The events of the last two days raise...