Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claims that half his sales are exported to the U.S. Says he: "I could sell five cars a day to Americans if I had the right color." The savings can be big, even after the $8,000 or so is paid to ship a car from West Germany and adapt it to U.S. safety and emission standards. Example: a Mercedes 500 SEL, when bought from an authorized dealer in the U.S., is about $52,000. The same model bought in West Germany and imported by a U.S. buyer goes for some $40,000 after the extra charges. American auto dealers...
...addition, Naisbitt said, the job market will place less value on the specialist and more on the "generalist who can adapt...
...correspondents. Now this massive selection of Waugh's journalism displays him fully dressed for his reading public. There are thus no naked surprises in this volume, but it is fascinating all the same: a chronicle both of tumultuous decades and of Waugh's refusal to adapt his clothes to changing tastes...
...Constitution has stayed sturdy and relevant in large part because the Justices have been able to adapt it to what Jus tice Holmes called "the felt necessities of the time." Such a task is delicate, to be undertaken with reverence for established principle and the slow evolution of fundamental rights. If the court becomes a mere political instrument, it will lose its legitimacy; if the Justices become the blunt tools of the Presidents who appoint them their judgments will be just as transitory It is reassuring that, once ensconced in the high court, so many of the Brethren develop...
...grill person at Tommy's Lunch, a late-night eatery which adjoins Cahaly's downplayed the importance of loyalty, saying students would likely adapt to Sage's without much hardship...