Word: adjuster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus Herschell, and most of America's gifted children--in order to survive in high school communities where the premium is put on social acceptance--and the scholar is only compensating for his big feet or his bad looks-generally adjust to that norm. The very educational system entrusted with the responsibility to train Herschell Podge and his fel- lows too often succeeds in converting intellectual interest into dance committees, campus clean up campaigns, school legislatures, and high school fraternities. Herschell is wasted...
...Management will adjust its schedule so that all employees wishing to go deer hunting will be allowed time...
...upon us, but barring an unnatural boom (like another war), it will arrive soon. Unless it is met with more intelligence and imagination than the Administration has shown in dealing with the less serious recession problem, the consequences will be severe indeed. The failure to adjust to affluence may bring the oft-heralded demise of capitalism...
...three seconds to see and react to an approaching plane; with both planes flying at 300 miles per hour (considerably slower than the speed of the jet airliners which will enter service this winter), three seconds means half a mile. In other words, by the time a pilot can adjust his course to avoid another plane, the other plane is upon him. In addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does, his field of vision...
...responsible for avoiding any other planes that might be in the area. Investigators assume that the TWA plane, climbing to avoid the bad weather, came up underneath the DC-7 and hit it. Neither pilot, had he seen what was happening, would have been able to adjust course in time to avert the accident...