Policies calculated to make the initial adjustment as painless as possible hampered long-run growth and prosperity.

Immediately after making the initial adjustments, and tuning the Key a bit, the response came in strong and clear.

Yet those very robots can accompany humans, smooth the difficulties of initial adjustment to a raw world, make colonization practical.

But otherwise her initial adjustment is remarkably smooth.

Eva didn't find it a problem once she had made the initial adjustment.

This made it near impossible to misshift, but at the expense of having more difficult initial adjustment.

The second part of the book describes Santiago's initial adjustment to life in America.

Another difficulty is the initial adjustment from being grandparents to youngsters to being their parents, Ms. Davis said.

After some initial adjustments, she is doing well, her parents said.

After an initial adjustment, she found the rhythm and pursued it with wanton leisure.