"We didn't have a good start, but little by little we are making those small adjustments and small steps forward".
It has been pared from 3 hours and 12 minutes of playing time to 2 hours and 28 minutes and, according to Michael Smuin, the director, adjustments and small trims are still going on.
The opening session provided a wonderfully tense morning of old-school attrition, with a sense at all times of a wider, half-glimpsed struggle in play, the familiar tiny adjustments and small but telling cuts and nicks that are the essence of Test cricket's migrainous wide-scale drama.
While Michael's father flew to and from China for work, young Michael and his mother trudged through the mundane adjustments and small humiliations of life in America — new grocery stores, new bus systems, a Balkanized gathering of fellow immigrants who may look like you but who are not like you in the ways that matter.
I think that across the board people are making adjustments, large and small, to accommodate the fact that we're in very difficult times right now.
Such are the adjustments, large and small, that come after 27 years of marriage between two people whose habits, interests and, yes, statures are profoundly different.
"Folks are sacrificing left and right... across the board, people are making adjustments large and small," he said.
These scales have been shown to have strong convergent and discriminant validity as evidenced by large positive correlations with measures of marital adjustment and intimacy, and small associations with personality scales unrelated to social activity (e.g., Le & Agnew, 2003; Rusbult et al., 1998).
You can't read a poem backwards or vertically and come away with the same overall effect the poet intended, but you can make minor adjustments with punctuation and small word changes and create your own unique variation on the original.
Most of them address minor issues, noted Congress watcher Joshua Huder, like minor adjustments to regulations and "small tweaks to the tax code," which don't draw much national attention or debate.
