Chrysler has other big aims, too--curbing wage costs and getting more flexibility to adjust production if necessary.

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It considers the possible social and environmental changes, and this has built-in flexibility to adjust changing needs.

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Most of us have the biological flexibility to adjust to these patterns, but not so for people with bipolar disorder.

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The preservation of employment, for instance, impairs management flexibility to adjust inputs to changing market conditions, and its ability to explore new business opportunities.

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Rather than browbeating them into a strict, regimented passenger-servicing procedure, we give them the flexibility to adjust to customers based on their varying demands, which are not always part of our playbook.

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Ideally, taxpayers would seek to accelerate into 2012 income they would otherwise recognize in the next year or so. (A corollary to this would be to defer deductions to later years.) Unfortunately, most taxpayers do not have the flexibility to significantly adjust the allocation of income between different years, but here are a few examples.

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The circumstances surrounding the rejection reveal the flexibility editors have to adjust the level of rigor of the peer-review process for specific papers.

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That speed and flexibility allowed us to easily adjust to varied light settings on the fly as we went from indoor to outdoor shooting locales.

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