Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race that only 38% of those eligible to vote bothered to do so, while 58% of the Latin voters and more than 50% of the blacks went to the polls. "We've become a boiling pot, not a melting pot," says Mayor Ferre. "The Anglos can't adapt. They can't take it, so they're moving...
...star player, Bill Walton, has succumbed to his imperfect body, been traded and turned against his former employer for treatment of his injuries. Maurice Lucas, the powerful forward, has grown embittered over his unsatisfactory ($300,000) salary, and his play has suffered. Jack Ramsay, the coach, has tried to adapt his kind of basketball, based on old-fashioned team play, to the new players of a new game. He is wondering whether he, or the game itself, can succeed...
...businessmen and other professionals to learn more about their own fields has transformed the once sleepy world of educational seminars into a hot new growth field. Explains Long Beach, Calif., Seminar Promoter Dominick M. Shrello: "Things change so fast that people constantly need new knowledge, and seminars can adapt much faster than hard-cover books or university courses...
...superior: what is known as low-structure teaching (education through experience) or high-structure instruction (stress on drill in the basics)? Many low-structure advocates, sometimes described as "gooeys," follow the theory, developed since 1920 by New York City's Bank Street College of Education, that learning must adapt to the pace of the individual child. Under this system children learn to read by being provided with a rich environment that stimulates them to learn the words they need. Many high-structure people, known in the trade as "pricklies," use the DISTAR program (for Direct Instruction Systems for Teaching...
...going well now, Meyreles never lets himself forget that "it'll end. When my ego gets too big, I go, 'Don't forget. It's going to end some day and you ain't gonna get it anymore.' It might hurt for a while. But I'd adapt to something new. I'd go into the politics of love--saving the world...