readjustment

• “Instead of a small, painful economic readjustment from a short-lived boom, the little town's industries are slaughtered as waves of default, unemployment, and credit contraction drown each neighborhood and industrial park.”

  LewRockwell.com

• “My readjustment will be a slow process and should involve a gentle transition away from the media spotlight.”

  Rupert Murdoch is No Hero

• “If these two great movements of our age, having this as their object, can be brought into close harmony and co-operation, the readjustment will be the sooner and more painlessly accomplished; but, for the moment, the two movements alike in their origin and alike in many of their methods of procedure, remain distinct.”

  Woman and Labour

• “There is the legislative body with its multiplied parties; there is the restless democracy behind, and every measure of taxation and readjustment, which is bound to press hard upon the human unit of the country, before it can go into force, or be legislated upon, has to be dealt with on the basis of such a democracy based on universal suffrage.”

  The European Situation

• “The town, which had lived, fought, lost, and suffered not as a group of individuals, but as a psychological unit, had surrendered at last, less to the idea of readjustment than to the indomitable purpose of a single mind.”

  Virginia

• “Freedom and facility of readjustment, that is to say capacity for growth in social structure, therefore depends in great measure on the degree of freedom with which the situation at any given time acts on the individual members of the community-the degree of exposure of the individual members to the constraining forces of the environment.”

  The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions

• “Maybe I will sound too much like an old puritanical Marxist, ranting about the capitalist conspiracy to lure gullible consumers into buying more and more, if I say that the coming reduction of affluence what economists call a "readjustment" in disposable income might not necessarily be such a terrible thing.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “Perhaps it might be called a readjustment; surely Ms. Rice would approve of such semantics.”

  CounterPunch

• “A remaining factor that could be considered for evaluating such projections is the nature of economic perimeters (territorial, regional, zones, social orders, etc.), which seem to be in a current state of "readjustment;" Some might say, "realignment.”

  Offshorable Jobs, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Accorded a key, if not the primary, role in the soldiers '"readjustment" to civilian society, women were bombarded with advice from a wide range of experts. 47”

  Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II

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