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These policies comprised the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the 1980s and 1990s, when developing countries were forced to cut social programs, privatize public services, deregulate industries, eliminate trade protection, and make their labor markets more “flexible” (a euphemism for making it easier to fire workers).

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And actually, I spend as much of my time in clinic dealing with the emotional adjustment of patients as with the physical disability.

Creative agility is about being able to test and refine that portfolio of ideas through quick pursuit, reflection and adjustment.

A slight adjustment of spelling, and rabota became the Czech robota, which, in addition to defining the toil of the serfs, was also used figuratively to describe any kind of hard work or drudgery.

My smartwatch is looking at my blood pressure: I needed an adjustment in my blood pressure medicines, my coumadin level.

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