adjustment
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“What we’re seeing is a market adjustment in liberal-arts colleges to stay viable in challenging financial times,” said Nat Smitobol, an admissions counselor at IvyWise, a college admissions consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Common suggestions include eliminating the income-tax cap, raising the full retirement age, implementing new taxation avenues or altering the cost-of-living adjustment in an effort to boost revenue for the program.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
An adjustment, as Goldman Sachs put it last week, “is urgently needed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
McManus said his experience with the Packers — in 2024 he joined them near midseason — would help him make a quick adjustment to the Rams and snapper Joe Cardona and holder Evans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
She’d changed the meeting time to earlier so that her father and his staff could claim that she was the target and that she escaped only because of the last-minute scheduling adjustment.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
The base rates for water and power have not changed since July 2019, but pass-through adjustments can fluctuate annually to cover costs due to fuel or inflation, according to the DWP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Gynecological pain is so often neglected, and it’s a space where even small adjustments can represent an improvement.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Another switch could be to a chained COLA, which is a more complicated way to calculate annual adjustments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
More than 6,000 women were interviewed for the inquiry and 94% said employers lacked a good understanding of endometriosis, and half received no workplace adjustments.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
It glints, throwing tiny shards of light as I make adjustments to the angle.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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