Word: adjustment
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...Inevitably, as your fellow first-years adjust to frenetic crowds and large, green trays, someone will bump into somebody else. This can result in a a simple orange juice spill or an entire, five-course meal dumped on the ground. Probably, someone will laugh, and there might even be a chorus of slow claps. Needless to say, you don’t want this to be you—though, if it happens, it’s not the end of the world...
...crazily self-defeating for us to set arbitrary and entirely politicized limits on the visas we grant to skilled foreign workers, such as software engineers and nurses. Wouldn't it make more sense to establish a politically independent federal apparatus, like the Federal Reserve System, that would adjust immigration quotas according to the actual and projected ebbs and flows of our economy? The waves of exotic foreigners who poured in during the 1800s and early 1900s were unsettling to Americans at the time - culturally, economically, and politically. But our forebears got over it, fortunately, since the newcomers were instrumental...
...track, however, the ploy has most likely been thoroughly tapped. "My guess would be that the best jockeys already do everything they can in terms of using this mechanism," says Spence. "Where it could come into play in horse-racing is in training other people, to help them adjust their posture...
...model and the industry expects similar language to be included in any upcoming Senate health-reform bill as well. Doctor-owned specialty hospitals would "wither on the vine," says Molly Sandvig, executive director of the industry lobbying group Physician Hospitals of America. "Any business that can't grow or adjust to the market won't be around too long...
...Science paper explores a fascinating topic: how species will adjust to a warmer world. The environment has always driven natural selection - successful species adapt to their surroundings, or they die - and while the environment has also always changed, never has it done so as quickly as it does today, thanks to the billions of tons of CO2 we're shoveling into the atmosphere. (Watch TIME's video "How to Shear a Sheep...