Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter (Norman Kaye) is the protagonist of Lonely Hearts, and the movie comes in on the 49-year-old bachelor after the death of his mother. We watch him slowly adapt to his new independence as he decides to go to a match-making service to find companionship. Peter's terrible self-consciousness while preparing for his date is exquisite--his agony is almost palpable as he gets fitted for a new toupee and fumbles with a red carnation in his lapel...
...many more very old Americans. For instance, Arizonans over 80 will increase their number almost fivefold in two decades, from 50,000 to 228,000. Nationally, the number of people 85 and older is likely to double, to 5.1 million. To accommodate this demographic shift, cities and states may adapt existing facilities to the new circumstances: Ohio, for instance, is predicted to have 624,000 fewer children and teen-agers at the end of the century than it does today. Instead of building new centers for the proliferating elderly, local governments there might simply retrofit old empty school buildings...
...teachers in the program adapt the materials and the magazine to their own needs in surprisingly varied ways. American Studies Teacher William Di George of Ewing Township High School, N.J., mounts some 90 TIME covers on his classroom bulletin boards to impart a personal view of current history; for quizzes, he masks the identifications and asks his students to name the subjects and discuss their roles in events. East Hampton, N.Y., Social Studies Teacher Jim Barry has devised a current-events contest in which teams compete for points by answering questions from a given week's issue. Evelyn Robinson...
...emerging winners will be those that adapt most quickly to rapid growth and the changing market. With 1983 sales forecast at 7 million machines, the personal computer is already well on its way to becoming a mass consumer product...
...stereo equipment." For months the Army suffered high chopper losses because pilots flew at low levels over Viet Cong-held villages and paddy-fields without varying their approaches and takeoffs. Men died because promised chest-armor plates for their cockpits failed to arrive. To exist, Mason learned to adapt to "the details of the job at hand, no matter how bizarre...