We define the Civil War as a regime shift that necessitated a structural movement of labor from Southern agriculture to Northern manufacturing, and design empirical tests to determine whether this formulation fits the empirical data better than theories, such as the Beard–Hacker thesis, that characterize the U.S. transformation as an abrupt adjustment to technical shocks.
He was a prison reformer working to avoid the abrupt adjustment from isolation to freedom by putting into place more step-down programs for prisoners.
It is probably true that the faster information flows through the economy, the more abrupt any adjustments will be.
The change you've experienced -- whether it is a new school year, a new relationship, even a new traffic pattern -- is abrupt; our adjustment, on the other hand, takes longer.
Reviewers have noted the somewhat abrupt auto-adjustment of display brightness, which tends to under-illuminate the screen; however, it has twice the battery life compared to the HTC handset, achieved partly through the dim display.
In an uncertain future of rapid change and abrupt, unforeseen transitions, adjustments in management approaches will be necessary and some actions will fail.
"Mindful," like much of "The Pedestrians," is a series of adjustments to abrupt temporal shifts: the podcast cuts to the to-do list, which cuts to the school cancellation, and so on.
The International Monetary Fund correctly warned earlier this month that Britain's long-term growth potential would be impaired by the recession, and there's nothing that expansionary macroeconomic policies can do about that, save to make the adjustment less abrupt.
The adjustment is abrupt, but if we've played right we've made the most of the time we were given, and upon graduating can do things to cushion ourselves against the blow -- to strengthen the tiny networks of muscle around the injury.
Instead of supply and demand guiding the economy to equilibrium, adjustments can be abrupt.
