Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year. Many classic movies now sell for only $19.95, and children's films often go for $14.95. This has prompted many mass merchandisers, notably Sears, to start selling cassettes in their stores. Mom-and-pop shops, which started out in rentals only, have been slow to adapt to the trend. One reason is the higher cost of selling tapes outright, since the stores must pay for large inventories. Big retail chains tend to get better wholesale terms from the movie studios and therefore are able to offer lower prices to consumers...
...economists who highlight this phenomenon tend to be liberals; many of them blame the Reagan Administration for failing to help Middle Americans adapt to the postindustrial age. Millions of citizens, they contend, have lost their middle-class jobs in aging industries like autos and steel and have plunged into the minimum-wage realm of floor mopping and hamburger flipping. By failing to halt the middle-class shrinkage, the argument goes, the U.S. could allow itself to become a two-tiered society of rich and poor. Declares M.I.T. Economics Professor Lester Thurow: "Wherever one looks, one now finds rising inequality...
Robert L. Selman, an associate professor of psychology at the Graduate School of Education and the Medical School, will adapt the program he has used for the past seven years at the Mannville School for use in local public schools...
...many of the same government officials in a similar project and provided the impetus for the K-School's program, said Marshal. Following the broadcasts, Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 worked with Leslie Gelb, the newly appointed deputy editor of the New York Times editorial page, to adapt the idea for university teaching, Marshal said...
...They have done ordinary things in an extraordinary way," says Noonan. "The Sullivans have responded to the people's needs, and as the times have changed, they have been able to hold on to the continuity and adapt to reality...