Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many students, some name--any name--was better than a direction. "Any surprise takes a few days to adapt to, but I'm beginning to like it already," said Lewis S. Goldman...
...other Time Inc. magazines. It can sometimes mean transferring people and equipment to distant places, or, in this year of Olympics, political conventions and elections, of leasing local facilities and supervising the rapid processing of thousands of feet of film. It also means working with suppliers and manufacturers to adapt or even invent processes or equipment. One new machine currently being tested uses a computerized "analyzer" to take most of the guesswork out of printing color negatives, which cannot be read by eye. To shoot space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral, for which equipment has to be set up days...
ICONFESS that I have no solution. Replacing the Core with Voc Ed certainly is not it. Yet it seems odd that when the fundamental role of higher education is changing, institutions of higher education do not adapt. It is unfortunate that with an economist as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, this market response did not take place. It is hoped the next one will do better. My friends and I are not averse to serving the public--we just need our country and our kind to show...
...represents a stage in the political development of what are still very young nations. "We have to recognize that the constitutions we bequeathed to our former African colonies don't work in some places," says a British official. "It is not a mortal sin for these countries to adapt them to their own particular circumstances...
Said Jones: "Customers will adapt. They historically have.'' - By John S. DeMott. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Conan Putnam/Chicago