Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Microsoft, which has zoomed past Lotus to become the industry's No. 1 company. Microsoft's rise was due in large part to an agreement with IBM to develop software for the manufacturer's personal-computer line. But now Lotus is getting an even more challenging IBM assignment: to adapt the top- selling Lotus 1-2-3 business-ledger software and other programs to much larger computers. Lotus would thus become the first company among its peers to graduate from personal computers to huge mainframes. The deal is just as promising for IBM, which will now have...
...Johan de Villiers, who farms 5,000 acres along the Limpopo River: "We whites are always worried about our future and our children's future. We're always avaricious. We always want more and more. The African is different. If there is a drought, he moves on. He can adapt. If they can control their breeding and we can control our avarice, there is no reason we can't somehow get together. We do the planning, they do the work...
...adapt his plays to glorify women at the expense...
...most important difference between the old hall and the new, however, is likely to be the way performers adapt. The old hall flattered them and to some extent disguised technical deficiencies, particularly in intonation. In the new Carnegie, performers will have to experiment with seating arrangements and stage positions to obtain the most favorable acoustics. "Carnegie always had the reputation for musicians that you could just go out there and play," says Conductor Davies. "Now they must work more to do their best." This may mean that at first there will be fewer memorable evenings of the kind that have...
These graduate students are often inexperienced and frequently so busy that they read weekly assignments hastily, sometimes just hours before their classes. And when undergraduates must constantly adapt their thinking and writing to suit the moods of graduate students, as well as their varying "styles," the younger students can hardly become enthusiastic about such a life themselves...