Word: adjusted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Which it might. This could be the real thing - if not a recession, then at least some extended humdrums of 2 to 3 percent growth. Even if the tech sector can bottom out soon and adjust its expectations accordingly, there'll be no 43 percent runup in 2001, and no gold rush to go with it. And with no "wealth effect" for consumers and no market magnet for international investment, America's imperviousness to global slowdowns should be greatly reduced...
...season to tinker with a football team that had made the play-offs eight straight years, featured explosive wide receivers Randy Moss and Cris Carter and running back Robert Smith, and had as good a chance as any other team to get to the next Super Bowl. Just adjust the dials a bit, right? Not by Green's logic. He went for a thorough overhaul. Dispense with the veteran leadership of Jeff George and Randall Cunningham at quarterback, and give the ball to a second-year guy who had never thrown a pass in the NFL. Brass does...
...interests, religions, sleep patterns and music. It seemed that we shared nothing but living space, had nothing in common but our room. All that changed this past month, with the season premiere of "The Simpsons." At 8 p.m. we all squeezed onto our futon and simultaneously tried to adjust the reception. We laughed together, and repeated to one another the punch lines we missed: "Do you want things done right, or do you want them done fast...
...troubled merger is a story of miscalculation--by Schrempp, who realized too late that he had bought a company that had already peaked, and by Chrysler's executives, who failed to adjust to the sea changes of an increasingly competitive American auto market. It also points to the troubles that accompany big transnational mergers--and Schrempp has a number of them going at the moment...
...juice a day Wayne had been drinking, along with the big portions of rice in Bernadette's West Indian cooking, were not going to cut it. Anxious about reducing rice but relieved to have a handle on some of Wayne's problems, Bernadette agreed she would try to adjust...