Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automobile industry could probably adapt to electric cars, but it would be a painful and costly process. For one thing, since electric cars tend to be extremely durable, "planned obsolescence" would itself become obsolete. For another, the new cars, to minimize the drain on their batteries, would have to be light, small and free of many of today's high-profit accessories. As for the oil industry, Netschert figures that it would lose fully half its market...
...voice. "I do think there are four constituencies: students, faculties, administrators, and alumni. There are also marginal groups like teaching fellows .... Any one of these groups can be disruptive. If the alumni go around raising hell, they can make life difficult. So could the other groups. In order to adapt to change, there must be a degree of accommodation. Accommodation-not consensus-is the word I want...
Soon this small bird, native only to Texas, may be just a footnote in an ornithology textbook-another species that failed to adapt to man. One of its last retreats is Meridian State Park, a 461-acre tangle of cedar breaks and cactus populated by rattlesnakes, red-spotted toads, tarantulas and a steady flock of hardy bird watchers who come to catch a glimpse of the warbler. Now the local Lakeview Recreation Association plans to build a nine-hole golf course right in the middle of the warbler's nesting ground...
...clear advantage this afternoon must go to the Crimson, however. Holy Cross has a woeful lack of depth, a system it has yet to adapt to convincingly, and no data from outside scrimmages to judge itself upon. If things work out properly. the Crusaders will fail to get untracked early. and run out of gas late...
...subject in action. From this aesthetic of minimum interference are derived the techniques of direct cinema, the result of ways in which these film-makers are forced to work (since they cannot structure the situations to suit their techniques-the real world doesn't provide set-shots-they must adapt their techniques to the situations). Hence synchronous recording and close-shooting, most often with telephoto or zoom lenses. Direct cinema is therefore a simpler and more intimate style of exposing contradiction. The implicit contradictions in an intrinsically ironic situation are given free to play to reveal themselves without benefit...