Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parks worries about letting "technology drive the educational process instead of the other way around." As for the corporate tendency to teach a specific set of facts and practices, Parks says, "Sound practices need to be based on sound theory. Otherwise you're not going to be able to adapt to a world that's constantly changing." Director Erich Bloch of the National Science Foundation notes that very often "companies want universities to train people. This is not their mission...
...biggest push for metrication has come from American exporters. Since the U.S. is the only major nation that has not embraced the metric system, companies must adapt to the rest of the world's standards if they wish to sell abroad. About two-thirds of the 1,000 largest U.S. manufacturers now use metrics to some extent, and all U.S. cars are currently designed to metric specifications...
...Pope and his aides face challenges from theological scholars whose reinterpretations of traditional dogma verge on what Rome considers heresy. In the Third World, notably black Africa, where Catholicism is flourishing, there are large and puzzling problems of what to do about "inculturation," the desire to adapt the church's rituals and procedures to local customs...
...increasing unemployment. After six months of talks, a proposed agreement was rejected by the union rank and file. As a result, Chevalier expects the jobless rate to rise from 8% to 10% by the end of the year. Said Chevalier: "Maybe France is a country where the capacity to adapt is weaker because every agreement must be negotiated at the highest level and then be applied by everybody, rather than operating on a case-by-case basis...
...debate raged, about 7,000 Falashas remained stranded in refugee camps in Sudan. Perhaps as many as 10,000 are still in Ethiopia. Anguished newcomers to the Israeli absorption centers, struggling to regain their health and adapt to the many confusing aspects of their new life, wait for word of those left behind. Last week they publicized their dismay at the disclosure of Operation Moses by praying for their relatives at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and staging a sit-in on the lawn of the Jewish Agency, the quasigovernmental body that oversees immigration. Said Baruch Tanga, a Falasha activist...