Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Serious policy lost out to the rag trade. Over-spending brought the country budget deficits and an unemployment rate proportionately higher than that of the United States. A series of disastrous budgets in recent years demonstrated his party's inability to adapt the economic thinking of the past decade to the current one. For fiscal reasons alone. Trudeau would not have won reelection...
...medieval style of "Fantasia" with its variations on a horn call theme. Though the horn sounds are fantastic (as they should be, played by the London Symphony Orchestra), the electronic "bending," the twinkling synthesizer background in place of the militaristic snare detract from its medieval effect These same qualities adapt the album, however, very suitably to the Moon...
...effects, talent, and imagination, the show can only soar so high. Essentially, this is due to the dramatic limitations of such a ceremonial enactment. Chronic repetition of scriptural dialogue--taken from the actual Tibetan Book of the Dead--and thematic representations that the cast enacts are often difficult to adapt to stage. Although many of the scenes involve creative choreography and skilled physical action, the performance never seems to progress from the point at which it started. Consequently, we often feel as we are watching a scene for a second time...
...wear ill-fitting shoes but they cannot afford to fall far behind the West's steady technological innovation. In some cases, designers have tried to keep up with Western models. The MiG-23, for example, has the "swing-wing" look of the U.S. F-111. The need to adapt foreign ideas and keep up technologically with foreign mili tary equipment has introduced a capitalist-like competitiveness to military production that is woefully lacking in the domestic economy, where shoddy goods do not face the test of the marketplace. As a leading Soviet economist, Academician Vadim Trapeznikov says...
...Size doesn't scare me," says Dean Treptow, president of Brown Deer Bank ($55 million) in Brown Deer, Wis. "We should be able to adapt more quickly to changes than the big boys can." Some regional banks are trying to fight off possible takeovers by large institutions by merging with other banks. The goal is to become so large that firms like Citicorp cannot easily swallow them up. Mergers also reduce overhead costs by combining such expensive operations as data processing and advertising...