Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role of Halakah in Judaism" but argues that Jewish law "was never intended to be frozen" and "must grow to meet new situations." In fact, as Rabbi Klein points out, Halakah has been significantly modified over the centuries, by such sages as Maimonides and Joseph Karo, in order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times by a less restrictive interpretation of custom. The Reform Jews go considerably farther, believe that it is the spirit rather than the letter...
...Even today, almost half of all young Negroes enter the job market without a high school diploma. By 1985 these youngsters will be about 40 years old, with half their working life ahead of them. Mighty few of these individuals are on any path toward equality. The economy will adapt to the labor supply, and if an adundant supply of uneducated Negroes is still available by 1985, there will be unskilled, badly paid, low productivity jobs for many of them. Their unemployment will be more frequent and of longer duration. This tragically low rate of completion of high school...
Finally, although education requires some highly specialized "hardware," it does not, in general, require a highly specialized structure. Thus, it is possible to construct school facilities capable of accommodating rapidly changing educational requirements. By using such construction, the Education Center can adapt to changes in education and also be adapoted to non-school functions...
...program began in 1955, when President Eisenhower directed the Navy to adapt the Army's liquid-fuel Jupiter missile for use on surface ships. This proved impractical, but the Navy within a year had made dramatic progress toward development of its own solid-fuel Polaris missile, and had also overcome many of the technical problems of designing a nuclear-powered submarine. The two programs logically became one. Working side by side, Admirals William F. Raborn (more recently head of the CIA) and Hyman Rickover headed a team that devised a complex navigational device that could plot...
...either way, their aim was to transform American education. They frequently referred to themselves as "manufacturers." They would first design their product, the new curriculum; test it in a laboratory; then adapt it for a trial assembly line -- the co-operating school system -- and finally, they hoped, for many assembly lines...