Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Death on the Campaign Trail A plane crashes, a Democratic Senator dies and suddenly both parties must readjust their strategies for winning control of the Senate Josh Tyrangiel In 1990, a few weeks after Paul Wellstone - a wiry 5-ft. 5-in. ex-college professor, liberal ideologue, professional agitator and extreme long shot - unseated an incumbent Senator in an election no one thought he could win, he sat down for breakfast with one of the few Establishment politicians he genuinely admired. Fellow Minnesotan and former Vice President Walter Mondale congratulated Wellstone on the upset but warned that the aggressiveness Wellstone...
...life is simply more visible in the culture now. Chris Rock is out there saying "Everyone has a gay cousin." Gay life is now close to most people - people are having people come out to them at work all the time, and having to readjust their understanding of friendships and relationships. There is a general mainstreaming and accepting of gay life, especially when it involves settling down and having kids. I think those things make straight society more comfortable with the idea...
...exact opposite of Angel's: instead of making the mirror hollow to save weight, let it be thin--about 8 in. thick for an 8-m mirror, in contrast to the 5-m Hale's 26 in.--and counteract the resulting floppiness with computer-controlled supports that continually readjust its shape...
...stanch the bloodshed. Buried in the rubble was not just the peace process, it was also our dreamy view of what the world was becoming. Confronted again with pictures of flag-draped coffins and mutilated bodies, with the sounds of random gunfire and angry chants, the world had to readjust to the fact that not every problem is solvable, that the global tide of peace is not inexorable, and that progress does not inevitably make civilizations more civilized...
...some, this may be impossible, says Sister John Francis Schilling, who as principal of St. Frances has watched 18 Baraka boys try to readjust to life in Baltimore. Her school is located in one of the city's most crime-ridden neighborhoods. Yet a remarkable 90% of its students go on to college. Most of them are the first in their families to apply. Schilling agrees that Baltimore needs a boarding school, but wants it located in the city. "You can't take them away for the rest of their lives," she says. "The boys have to learn...