Word: adaptability
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...woman, says Wunderlich, "Of growing up from a self-absorbed child wanting every desire fulfilled immediately into an adult who learns how to take care of himself and learns he has deep feelings for others." Such eternal moral complexities have regularly lured artists and playwrights to revise and adapt Pinocchio, and a roster of cinema greats and not-so-greats have risen to the challenge, though, to Italian eyes, none has ever quite nailed him. Benigni told a preview audience two weeks ago how his friend, the late Italian director Federico Fellini, used to call him Pinochietto and urged...
...about 80% of its liabilities on the basis of the guaranteed 4.5% rate. With interest rates falling through much of the 1990s, the firm had little choice but to chase higher returns on the stock market. Not all European nations mandated minimum rates, but all insurers had to adapt to the sharp, sustained drop in interest rates during the 1990s. At the same time, to entice new customers, they had to offer returns that would compete with giddy stock markets. By any standard, the results have been calamitous. European insurance stocks have fallen by 58% this year - even worse than...
...woman, says Wunderlich, "Of growing up from a self-absorbed child wanting every desire fulfilled immediately into an adult who learns how to take care of himself and learns he has deep feelings for others." Such eternal moral complexities have regularly lured artists and playwrights to revise and adapt Pinocchio, and a roster of cinema greats and not-so-greats have risen to the challenge, though, to Italian eyes, none has ever quite nailed him. Benigni told a preview audience two weeks ago how his friend, the late Italian director Federico Fellini, used to call him Pinochietto and urged...
...firms often must adapt their products to local needs. Telegea, for example, developed its technology to support Asian languages. And it's always a good idea to protect your intellectual property from pirates by filing for international patents...
Down at street level, the view is less confident. "Banking secrecy is an old tradition in Switzerland, but in the end Switzerland will have to adapt itself to the E.U.," says Otto Boesch, a retiree from St. Gallen, checking his stocks on a big board outside the Bahnhofstrasse headquarters of UBS. Concurs Marc Weber, who works nearby in a bank he won?t name: "Switzerland can?t isolate itself. We can?t survive as a fortified island in today?s world. It?s just a question of time...