Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...successfully erased apartheid-like laws. "There are hundreds of thousands of Africans who left Zimbabwe when it was called Rhodesia, to go to Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the States," Maraire says. "These people want to come back to Zimbabwe." She knows that it will be difficult to readjust to her return, but she maintains that each person who returns gives another person an incentive to return. She declares, "The adjustments are worth...
...suffered from some vigilante-style abuses. In July 1993 the home of convicted child rapist Joseph Gallardo was burned to the ground after citizens in Snohomish County learned he was about to be paroled. "When things like that happen, you jeopardize the ability of the person to ever readjust to community life," says Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Such a reaction "enhances the chance they'll return to crime," he warns. Civil libertarians contend that notification laws are unconstitutional and have the effect of illegally keeping people in custody after they have served their sentences. However...
Thomas A. Dingman '67, associate dean of the College for the houses system, said the lottery would try to address concerns about overcrowding in some houses. Dingman said that "houses may have to readjust their space...
When does the culture shock end? It doesn't really. You'll go home and readjust, but if you come back the process starts over again...