Word: adaptibility
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...investment strategy must adapt to the times; and since January 1, Cabot says, a glut of oil on the world market caused by increased production in the Middle East as well as stepped-up conservation efforts has made oil issues less attractive, reducing their prices by an average 15 to 20 per cent from what they were eight months ago. As a result, HMC has been selling off many of its petroleum holdings, especially those in international firms...
...replied: "I believe that this time the institutions of the Fifth Republic that have barred us from power for so long will contribute to keeping us there." It is a tribute to Charles de Gaulle that one of the most bitter opponents of his constitution is now preparing to adapt it to an entirely new set of circumstances...
...committee has worked with the faculty to design new courses and adapt old ones to emphasize the training of administrators. It has authorized a one-year masters degree program stressing leadership skills, a series of workshops for administrators, a Principals' Resource Center to provide in-service training, and a research proposal to study the effect of government policy on individual classrooms...
...space shuttle, however, will serve as a laboratory to help astronauts adapt to weightlessness after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) begins routine flights...
...cites the need for "thinking delegates" who carefully deliberate on their choice for President. Like other critics of the present system, Sanford wants to liberate convention delegates from their rigid commitment to a particular candidate. Under the present system, the delegates have virtually no flexibility to adapt to changing political conditions once they are selected, says Sanford. "They are instructed and bound more precisely than when they were bound and driven by the bosses." And the nominees they pick are more likely to be unrepresentative of the party's mainstream, as in the case of George McGovern...