Word: adapt
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Moreover, John Paul's very public health woes may prompt the Cardinals to push his successor to impose a mechanism to avoid another pontificate slowed by illness. Ratzinger, who has sought ways to adapt church governance for modern times, might be willing to agree to an age limit and pass on the job after a few years. --By Jeff Israely
...regardless of how sales go this season, age compression is here to stay. Some analysts think the worst of it may be over and that toymakers have figured out how to adapt. Kids "expect a bit more electronic sizzle from their toys, but they are still kids at heart, and kids love toys," analyst McGowan recently wrote in an industry report...
...guise as a columnist at FORTUNE, kicks butt in print. In Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Bing unloads on the famed Chinese strategist whose treatise, The Art of War, launched a thousand battles in China centuries ago--and a million management books in the past decade purporting to adapt Tzu's sublime Eastern battle philosophy to winning in Western business conflicts. Tzu counseled self-knowledge and restraint. "Subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful" tactic, says Tzu. Nonsense, says Bing. The traits rewarded in business are "raw, amoral, naked aggression and the will to win." Even...
...Center at Loughborough University in England. In Victorian workhouses, to give just one example, folks used to sit on benches and drape themselves on long ropes, called hang-overs, to sleep. They must have got used to it, Horne says. Indeed, the sleep system can be very flexible and adapt quickly to different conditions. "It's peace of mind rather than physical comfort that counts anyway," says Horne...
...coach was frank, however, cautioning Lederman that the senior’s time to adapt was limited...