Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deepest worry in all this for the American public is that the Reagan Administration is losing touch with reality. No one can reasonably demand that the President abandon the beliefs he has argued all his political life. But a successful President must adapt his strongest convictions to changing circumstances, and he cannot let the optimism that is a major virtue blind him to disagreeable facts. Overseas, not every policy is well founded just because it is anti-Soviet; at home, the greatest threat to American prosperity seems to be the stratospheric budget deficits that are aggravated by Reagan's policies...
...desserts are simple enough so that you should not be afraid to change them to suit your own tastes. Don't be afraid to adapt and improvise. If you hate coconut, just don't add it. These recipes are for the most part, foolproof so that slight alterations, variations, or mismeasurements won't make them unappetizing...
This is a recipe that you are really encouraged to adapt. Almost all the ingredients are optional, and the amounts you use of each is really...
Flexibility. The members of the Pacific community have been able to adapt to the changing needs and wants of the world. They have built mammoth industries to make oil-drilling rigs and steel, and they have also cashed in on designer clothing and personal computers. Ironically, noted Chen, "the states that have been most successful are those that are very poor in resources, like Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. They have not been tied down like Malaysia to tin and rubber...
...been a successful exporter with an increasingly affluent population, its government has not yet fully opened the gates to imports from other Asian nations. China, with its immense population, has isolated itself for decades and only recently begun to look outward. "If both Japan and China were to adapt themselves to greater imports from their neighbors," concluded Krause, "it would generate a dynamic trade expansion that would allow Asia to far outdistance the rest of the world...