Word: readjustments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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General Michel Aoun, the Lebanese Christian leader, rejected the agreement promptly because it provides no timetable for the withdrawal of occupying Syrian forces. Also opposed were militia commanders of Lebanon's large Shi'ite Muslim community, who want to abolish rather than readjust sectarian quotas. Yet the latest eight-month round of fighting has wearied most of the beleaguered country, and there were some signs that both Aoun and Shi'ite leaders would eventually be persuaded to fall into line...
Berry, who usually plays at the number-two singles position, sat out the singles competition with an elbow injury, forcing Harvard to readjust its lineup. However, freshman Mike Shyjan, playing up from his usual position at third singles, defeated Yale junior David Gollob, 7-6 (13-11), 6-2, in the number-two spot...
...last week, discloses "a foreign policy of necessity designed to provide breathing space." But this necessity has bred a virtue: the plaudits for Moscow's policy shifts have led to an overall advance of the Gorbachev cause overseas. It is, of course, domestic imperatives that have forced Gorbachev to readjust, even reconstruct Soviet foreign policy. Henry Trofimenko, a specialist at Moscow's Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, laid the Kremlin's newly realistic approach squarely on three forces: money, perestroika and the need for Western assistance. Said Trofimenko: "First of all, we should spend less money abroad. Second, there...
...when Congress passed the federal law forbidding employers to set a mandatory retirement age, it gave universities a seven-year exemption so that they could readjust their benefit plans and insure that they could maintain a high quality staff...
...going to readjust our fore-checking for RIT and Cornell," Trotman said...