Word: adaptability
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...turnaround was caused, indirectly, by the DPP. Kicked out of power eight years ago, the KMT had grown out of touch with Taiwan's increasingly vibrant democratic environment. After ruling for so many decades, most of the time through authoritarian regimes, the KMT was corrupt, imperial and slow to adapt to the rising spirit of Taiwanese identity. Since its landmark 2000 electoral loss, however, the KMT has learned to be more democratic and open to public sentiment, and it found a new message, oddly enough, in its historical ties to China. As Lin Chong-pin, president of the Foundation...
...These problems are well known. Kiyoshi Shimizu, director general of the Education Ministry's higher-education bureau, acknowledged shortcomings in the system during recent meetings to establish an OECD-administered mechanism for measuring the performance of universities worldwide. Some schools are trying to adapt. In November, Tokyo University - or Todai, the 130-year-old "Harvard of Japan" - partnered with Yale to increase its visibility abroad. Tokyo University President Hiroshi Komiyama says he wants to double the proportion of graduate courses taught in English to 20%. (About 8% of Todai's students are foreigners, compared with an average...
...importance of foreign relations because we are serving overseas, staring the enemy in the eye. And we understand the magnitude of global warming because we are the ones who will be here when the ice caps melt. Young people today are more complex, more intelligent, better equipped to adapt to change and more understanding of the benefits of everything from technology to diversity. Look at the faces on the cover. Each one says, "Yeah, I may be young, but I know what I'm doing and where I'm going. Do you?" The candidate who wins our vote...
Like any corporation, CARE compares the expected result with the outcome. With a response strategy due a week after an emergency hits and situation reports filed daily, CARE can constantly adapt, Giron says. Soon after an operation ends, it reviews how well its team was structured and whether there were gaps in skills and systems. Says Giron: "We give that feedback to the team leader. A year later, we review the entire operation to make sure needs were met, and if they weren't, then we decide what to do." Myton, for her part, is in the field assessing CARE...
...bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...