Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call it, and disregarding old-style marriage vows. We're also hearing from many older people who were victimized by the present divorce setup. Personally, I'm for marriage-mine was a success -but marriage is under threat. Let's find out what it takes to adapt or modify it to a new generation's needs." The two plan to keep on reintroducing their bill until it passes-or they are not reelected. Their own renewable contract with the voters is good for four years at a time...
MICHAEL CRICHTON, as a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School, spent a lot of time in Mass. General Hospital. The MGH complex is better equipped and more innovative than most hospitals in this country and is thus generally able to adapt to changing conceptions of health care. Along with the other health care workers in the hospital, Crichton was in the midst of the practical turmoil of a hospital facing rapid change. Crichton, already a successful fiction writer by his senior year, decided to write about this experience. It's a good idea, really; it's just...
...Gates. There are pitfalls, of course. Most of them are detailed in 4 days, 40 hours (175 pages, $5, Bursk and Poor Publishing), a paperback survey edited by Mrs. Riva Poor, a Cambridge management consultant. A few companies gave up the four-day week because their customers refused to adapt to the new schedule. Some workers complained of fatigue because of the longer days. Other firms rushed into a four-day week without sufficiently preparing their work force, then found that they had to raise wages to make the change in hours acceptable. Among companies that switched successfully, many offered...
...superintendent at Annapolis, Admiral James F. Calvert, believes that Zumwalt is "the best thing that's happened to the Navy in a long time," but he does not want his academy to adapt too completely to the world outside its walls. Calvert praises "team spirit, the battle cry, camaraderie, heroism, the desperate fight against impossible odds," and deplores the fact that higher education in the U.S. tends to reject "authority, tradition, moral values?anything that smacks of absolutes. Annapolis cannot go along with that." And if a midshipman does not believe "in the essential goodness of the country...
...courts had wooden wall that gave a big bounce to the ball. Harvard, more accustomed to a lob game and soft touch, had to adapt to the livelier back and front walls...