Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some ways, SNCC more than the rest of the movement, should have been able to adapt to the new economic and Northern emphasis, for its members had shifted course before and consistently had been at the movement's intellectual and ideological front. But it was exactly that fickleness and militance that made SNCC vulnerable and which eventually robbed it of all effectiveness and left it a shambles...
...wing of his own National Party. Botha has never received a popular mandate; he was elected by his party in 1978 after Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster resigned during the Information Department's "Muldergate" scandal. He has since shaken the Afrikaner establishment by challenging white South Africans to "adapt or die," and calling for dismantling of the petty apartheid laws and regulations that enforce racial separation. One reform, for instance, would allow hotels, bars and restaurants to desegregate at the discretion of their proprietors. Botha even scandalized the old guard by questioning the sanctity of the Mixed Marriage...
...center to the film with his sly corruption and his charmingly sleazy hokum, often delivered at omnipotent volumes over what one suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell out and adapt. One of the blackest jokes in the movie occurs when Lord Gypsy annoints his draught-plagued audience with bogus snow to the crooning of "White Christmas;" Gypsy proclaims "I can make it snow in Brazil like it does in all civilized countries." His ironic tone suggested he knows what...
...nine months, newly arrived Vietnamese have been thrust into everyday American life from the moment of arrival. Families like the Trinhs (see box) are lodged, sent to school and employed, if possible, with surprising speed. Though the culture shock is incalculable, the boat people are determined to adapt. "Whatever job they get here usually means a substantial upgrading in their standard of living," points out International Rescue Committee Executive Director Charles Sternberg. One major problem for the boat people, however, is loneliness. Un like Korean and Chinese immigrants, the Vietnamese find no well-established communities of compatriots. Most...
...primary proposal of the new conservative consensus, tax cuts for the wealthy, signifies a genuine concern for national welfare instead of corporate greed, "supply-side economics" cannot succeed in revitalizing America. Their atavistic prescription of freemarket policies to bolster productivity exemplifies the failure of modern economic theory to adapt to the complex problems of either an increasingly interdependent global economy or a fragmented American society...