Word: adjuster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ability students supposed to go?" Summing-up Hollinshead credo: "We do not believe that human truth is always and everywhere the same. We believe it varies and changes with time and place . . . We also believe that education has something to do with preparing the student to be able to adjust (horrible word of the critics...
...year, the census takers counted all workers laid off for 30 days or less as employed. Last year the rules were changed to count such workers as unemployed. In this fashion, the statisticians arbitrarily added another 250,000 to the unemployment totals. While the census takers have tried to adjust past figures to take into account the new rules, no one knows how accurate the adjustments...
...spur recession-minded buyers, Bell & Howell brought out nine new camera products months ahead of schedule. Items: the 8-mm. Auto Load, a home movie projector that automatically threads the film; four cheaper ($99.95 to $159.95) versions of two previous "electric eye" 8-mm. movie cameras, which automatically adjust the lens to the right light...
...building there a $15 million laboratory that will employ 3,000 and provide an additional $180,000 in taxes. From its very beginning, the history of the U.S. is a record of change and of movement; the mark of the American people has become their remarkable ability to adjust to the demands of change and to roll with the movement. Nowhere last week was the common aptitude better stated than in Woburn, Mass., where Gas Station Owner Joe Hanson was moving his house an eighth of a mile and building a new gas station to accommodate a wider, smoother, brighter...
Indonesia last week seemed on the brink of running amok. No one could say which of the nation's characteristics would triumph: that of halus, the ability to adjust passively to circumstances and thereby dominate them, or that of kasar, the blind, rough, uncivilized plunge into brutal action. If the decision rests with anyone, it is with President Sukarno, who, at 56, moves with deceptive lightness through domestic crises and international power plays. His mind and personality are quicksilver; there is a nowhere, now-there quality to his thinking and actions that bewilders his friends and enrages his foes...