Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reorganization is part of Apple's attempt to adapt to a sharp slump in the computer market. The company will now concentrate on selling machines to schools and small businesses. The pinch at Apple has brought changes in its freewheeling style. Sculley recently shut off the free fruit juice and massage treatments supplied to members of the Macintosh division...
...ills that LPs are heir to --are all magnified in piano music, but they are drastically reduced, if not entirely eliminated, with CDs. And while flat-earthers may still decry what they hear as a clinical, metallic quality in digital CD recordings, such reservations will disappear as recording engineers adapt their techniques to the demands of the new medium. The best of the current CD piano releases...
...seem to indicate that at least some species were not terribly cerebral: one type of brontosaurus, for example, weighed about 30 tons, and probably had only a half-pound brain. If the dinosaurs did indeed become progressively less intelligent, the theory goes, they would have lost the ability to adapt to changes in the environment...
...dioxide results in a greenhouse effect, which traps the sun's energy, causing temperatures on land and in the sea to rise markedly. Conversely, crustal movement may allow frigid ocean currents from the poles to invade tropical waters, leading to a worldwide drop in temperatures. Those species that cannot adapt to the earth's erratic behavior simply succumb. To many paleontologists, as well as geologists, it seemed to make sense...
...sales in French markets. Efforts to end the deadlock continued through the week. The breakthrough came in a final 16-hour bargaining session led by Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti. The agreement called for a transition period of seven to ten years, allowing the economically backward Iberian countries to adapt to the Community's policies promoting the free movement of workers, capital and manufactured goods...