Word: adaptions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from petty thief to capo di rutti capi in a series of flash-backs interspersed in the main action. Here, Michael (Al Pacino) has to deal with the legacy of his father--an extra-legal fiefdom doing business on a scale Exxon wouldn't sneeze at--and try to adapt it to changing times. If the film has anything to say about this, it is that he is imprisoned by his heritage. He marries an upper-class New England girl (played by Diane Keaton, who apparently hasn't learned how to act yet) and promises, at their wedding that "within...
...besides the resolution, administrators are also working out tentative guidelines for compliance with the law; in that respect they seem to be ahead of other Ivy League colleges, whose administrators this week echoed Harvard's criticism of the files law but seemed less sure how they will adapt...
Gyllenhammar remains convinced that Kalmar will work. "We think the extra capital involved will be offset by increased productivity," he says. Still, Gyllenhammar is a prudent manager, and Volvo is prepared to adapt if the Kalmar experiment fails. The plant was designed in such a way that it can be re-converted into a conventional assembly line at a minimal cost...
...Having taken office in a time when alumni were generally upset with both the students and the administration, the new generation of administrators do not seem to understand several fundamental principles of alumni relations: that alumni see the key to Harvard's greatness as its ability to change and adapt with progress, that they usually defer to those in power, and that their faithfulness to an institution and an ideal cannot be severely altered by any but the most cataclysmic changes...
...pain and insecurity of confrontation. I wanted desperately to be part of Harvard. I was intrigued by its traditionalism, put off by the elitism, but above all else, compelled by how different it was from California. So, I began the second step of adjustment: I consciously tried to adapt to Harvard without losing myself in that endless stream of conformity...