Word: adaptibility
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Companies may be wary of heavy-handed Government intervention, but more and more of them recognize that corporate America must adapt to a rapidly changing workforce. Both husband and wife hold jobs in 57% of U.S. couples with children, up from 43% in 1978. In 1950 only 12% of mothers with children under six years old worked outside the home; more than 57% do so now. Over the past ten years, in fact, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. labor force has been mothers of children younger than three years old. More than half of these women have jobs...
...tender: often brusque and occasionally imperious. Dr. Anthony Smith, who trained at St. Christopher's and is now medical director of a hospice north of London, recalls that an interview with Dame Cicely was "like going to the headmaster's study." Others complain that she has been slow to adapt to new needs, particularly the admission of AIDS patients. "She simply wouldn't allow an AIDS patient to breathe on St. Christopher's," says one observer. Her views have changed, but she still insists that any AIDS patients admitted must also be suffering from cancer. In fact, one such patient...
...Bush struggles mightily this week to create an inspiring vision of Reaganism as he would adapt it for the 1990s, he will have to confront the limits of living on borrowed ideology. The militant conservatism that helped propel Reagan to power in 1980 was a philosophy born of frustration. Even when Nixon and Ford held the White House, conservatives felt disenfranchised. That is why it was so easy for Reagan to articulate their resentments over high taxes and meddlesome federal bureaucrats. But because of the very success of Reaganism, Republicans can no longer stoke themselves up with anti- Establishment resentment...
Hefner had hoped to adapt the clubs, established in the 1960s as havens for male entertainment and dining, to an altered business world in which sexism had become unfashionable. But not even toned-down decor, less nudity and the hiring of male Bunnies could bring back Playboy's heydays of the 1970s, when 22 clubs flourished around the country. Hefner presided over the closing of three company-operated clubs in 1986. Two of the last three franchises, in Des Moines and Omaha, were closed in May. There are no plans, however, to shut down five clubs in Asia, where business...
...there a soul to the Democratic Party? Is there a coherent ideology to replace the promise-them-anything, interest-group liberalism that animated the party from F.D.R. to Walter Mondale? Or, after two straight tidal-wave defeats, have the Democrats extinguished their spark in a belated effort to adapt to the Age of Reagan...