Word: readjustment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next month engineers will ram the first of three corrective steel barriers, or weirs, into the channel bed to readjust the river's flow. In the project's second phase, they will begin dumping dirt into six miles of the channel once so carefully scooped out. If all goes well over the next 15 years, the river will gradually rise and engulf the artificially dry plains that surround it, transforming them back to the lush, mosquito-ridden swamps they were for hundreds of thousands of years...
Princeton librarian Glen Odell says that "space is a constant crisis here as everywhere." The school's main building, Firestone Library, is about 85 percent full, which Odell says means that librarians are constantly having to readjust shelf space for new books. But Princeton is one of the smaller of the major research libraries, with just over 3.6 million volumes...
Just seven minutes later, UConn got a chance when it penetrated just right of the Harvard goal mouth. A centering pass that came out of the soup of players and sticks could have been taken by either of two Husky attackers, and Lamont didn't have enough time to readjust when the first let it go through to Smith. Smith's 11-yard drive crossed into the undefended left side of the net, and UConn held a 2-1 advantage with less than 11 minutes remaining in the contest...
...those folks grinning out at the Eisenhower years from their patios, their barbecues) may have overdone the home comforts. It diverted billions that perhaps should have gone into the nation's industrial plant The Reagan Administration (for all its warm rhetorical embrace of hearth and family) wants to readjust the nation's tax and credit policies to favor business investment over mortgage investment...
...milk producers, who have consistently fought reform. Their biggest gains have come from passage of a 1977 amendment that has boosted the minimum price that the Agriculture Department is required to pay for surplus dairy goods from 75% of parity to 80%. The amendment further requires the Government to readjust support prices twice a year to keep pace with inflation. Result: even at 80% of parity, the U.S. now pays $1.50 per Ib. for butter, 50? more than the world wholesale price...