11.   How is the adjustment process going?

12.   How long could the adjustment process take?

13.   Other school officials said any initial friction was just part of the adjustment process.

14.   The rise in value of the US dollar has started the adjustment process.

15.   And there is an upside to the painful adjustment process that is now going on.

16.   Deputy Interior Minister Vatana Asavahame said the adjustment process, which is now under way, will be completed and new prices announced in March or April this year.

17.   Wolfensohn stressed the role of the bank in helping people to minimize economic hardship created by the crisis and the painful adjustment process.

18.   But she cautioned that the adjustment process -- aimed at smoothing seasonal blips in new jobless benefit claims -- may have distorted the result.