Word: adaptibility
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Castro has been loath to respond by renouncing his socialist credo in the fashion of former communists like Boris Yeltsin. But to salvage what remains of his economy, he has been forced to adapt, imposing some measures that are anathema to his beliefs. In 1990, for example, Castro began soliciting foreign investment. Though he continues to declare that Cuba will never sell off its state-run companies, he has opened up strategic areas such as telecommunications, oil exploration and mining to joint ventures. The latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon...
...bring in the additional capital that Cuba desperately needs. In each meeting, Castro vows that he will never abandon socialism but also promises to continue holding open an economic window to the breezes of the free market. ``We have to be ready to conduct the necessary reforms to adapt our country and our economy to the present world situation,'' he says. Rough translation: until Castro gets his country up and running again, he will use capitalist tools to survive. ``But,'' he insists, ``without renouncing our ideals!'' The way out is proving a difficult road for Castro's most loyal minions...
...communist saw holds that capitalists will gladly sell the rope that can be used to hang them. Fidel Castro is trying to adapt that maxim to secure a financial lifeline from the U.S. It is an article of faith in Havana that if only Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would rescue Cuba's economy. Last summer Castro tried to force the Clinton Administration into negotiations about improving ties by allowing more than 33,000 Cubans to flee the island for the U.S. The ploy did not work; the U.S. still...
House residents are trying to adapt the change, recognizing that whether or no they want the new name is a moot point. Nevertheless, they find that it is hard to rename a place that is such an integral part of their lives. "There's no way I would wear a Pforzheimer House t-shirt," says Alynda D. Wheat '96. Grounding her position in true North pride, Wheat adds, "I'm going to graduate from North House--no one in our class, nor anyone now living in the house, will ever call it Pforzheimer...
Students says the course's size and format has helped them adapt to the difficulty of the work. Those who have taken the class say it gave them an understanding they might not have developed in larger introductory classes...