Word: adaptability
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...Party member. She is striving "to bring fresh air" to China's musty, Soviet-style planning dogmas, which have left much of the capital grim, dusty and clogged with traffic. Huang argues for more attention to how humans actually live, what makes sense for the environment and how to adapt to China's racing real estate market...
...legacy, Sun goes on, "China is developing human rights faster than any country in the world." Taiwan and South Korea, of course, survived for decades as dictatorships even as they opened up their economies. But as more Chinese like Wang start demanding their rights, the government may learn to adapt. "History was pushed forward by people like me," says Wang. After all, look at Taiwan and South Korea today: they are both democracies...
...outstanding problems that will require Skocpol’s attention as she takes over the reins. First, he says the school must do a better job of preparing students not only how to do research, but also how to teach. And second, the dean must help the graduate school adapt to modes of interdisciplinary research...
...Harvard is justly proud of the achievements of its faculty, but has yet to adapt its appointment processes and departmental structure” to take into account competition from other universities and new expectations regarding family and professional responsibilities, the 1991 report read. “If Harvard is to be successful in senior appointments, it must attract and retain the best young women as junior faculty members...
...people convey information. "Humans communicate with language but also with everything else we do. The books you own, the way you decorate your house, whether you wear a tie or not are all signs of something else," he explains. "That's semiotics in a nutshell." His earlier novels neatly adapt this philosophy to the thriller format - Rose, for example, is a medieval whodunit set in a monastery, Foucault's Pendulum a conspiracy of sects and secret societies. The new storyline plunges the author into a forensic examination of nostalgia. "By definition, the word nostalgia is the desire to return...