Imagine you need to explain the "Adjustment Team's" purpose and methods to a peer using only this text. How would you describe their core function and what evidence supports your explanation?

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?" Ed blinked. "Who?" "Your wife." Ed trembled. The color drained from his face, leaving it sickly white. "That's right. I did." "Your wife knows." The Old Man's face twisted angrily. "A woman. Of all the things to tell—" "I didn't know." Ed retreated, panic leaping through him. "But I know now . You can count on me. Consider me changed." The ancient blue eyes bored keenly into him, peering far into his depths. "And you were going to call ​ the police. You wanted to inform the authorities." "But I didn't know who was doing the changing." "Now you know. The natural process must be…

← Adjustment Team ( 1954 ) by Philip K. Dick → related portals : Science fiction , Thriller First published in the September-October 1954 issue of Orbit Science Fiction ; it was adapted in 2011 into the movie The Adjustment Bureau . 638500 Adjustment Team 1954 Philip K. Dick ​ ADJUSTMENT TEAM by Philip K. Dick SOMETHING WENT WRONG...AND ED FLETCHER GOT MIXED UP IN THE BIGGEST THING IN HIS LIFE. ‌ I t was bright morning. The sun shone down on the damp lawns and sidewalks, reflecting off the sparkling parked cars. The Clerk came walking hurriedly, ​ leafing through his instructions, flipping…

greed. "I wish I knew what it was. Or how it happened." ​ "It was not your fault. You're the victim of a clerical error. A mistake was made—not by you. But involving you." "What mistake?" Ed rubbed his forehead wearily. "I—I got in on something. I saw through . I saw something I wasn't supposed to see." The Old Man nodded. "That's right. You saw something you were not supposed to see—something few elements have been aware of, let alone witnessed." "Elements?" "An official term. Let it pass. A mistake was made, but we hope to rectify it. It is my hope that—" "Those people," Ed interrupted.…

Ed muttered. "You were supposed to have been in the Sector when the adjustment began. Because of an error you were not. You came into the Sector late—during the adjustment itself. You fled, and when you returned it was over. You saw, and you should not have seen. Instead of a witness you should have been part of the adjustment. Like the others, you should have undergone changes." Sweat came out on Ed Fletcher's head. He wiped it away. His stomach turned over. Weakly, he cleared his throat. "I get the picture." His voice was almost inaudible. A chilling premonition moved through him. "I was…

as no response." ​ "You called at eight-fifteen exactly?" "Yes, sir! Exactly eight-fifteen. But the Summoner was asleep. By the time I managed to arouse him it was eight- sixteen . He summoned, but instead of A Friend with a Car we got a—A Life Insurance Salesman." The Clerk's face screwed up with disgust. "The Salesman kept the element there until almost nine-thirty. Therefore he was late to work instead of early." For a moment the Old Man was silent. "Then the element was not within T137 when the adjustment began." "No. He arrived about ten o'clock." "During the middle of the adjustment."…