Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After decades of lurking in the shadows, intelligence services will have to work hard to adapt to using open sources of information, the flood of raw information available to everyone from television, newspapers, journals, computers. Intelligence officers suffer from the impression that information is no good unless they stole it or paid for it. "The principal problem is with analysis," says Morton Abramowitz, a former chief of intelligence and research at the State Department, now president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "A major question is whether we're making use of the vast amount of nonsecret...
...this forces the faculty to be able to adapt, and learn from past teaching experiences, Fisher says. He is convinced that such two-way interaction is essential for Harvard's continued success...
...indication that the royal family wants to move forward. Its members are often seen as prisoners of the Imperial Household Agency, a 1,132-person bureaucracy that controls everything from rigid security to silver service to press interviews (almost none). It is hard for an outsider to adapt to such a sequestered life. Michiko, the present Empress, who married Emperor Akihito in 1959, is, like Owada, a commoner. She broke ground by insisting on certain innovations, such as raising her children ) herself. She suffered for her determination, coming close to a nervous breakdown in the 1960s...
...sentimental, but her friends say they have never seen Masako cry. Says classmate Sachiko Takamine: "I'm positive she still has her boyish side. She has become an incredible woman with femininity and masculine strength. She now has the appropriate aura for a princess. She has the wisdom to adapt herself to any environment...
...reality-check time in network television last week. After a blizzard of press attention and network hype, ABC finally brought forth Wild Palms, Oliver Stone's dazzling, challenging, future-shocked mini-series. It fizzled in the ratings. After years of twisting and turning in an effort to adapt to a new TV landscape, the networks unveiled their fall schedules. It looked like 1973 again...