Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both the Coop and its brick-and-mortar competitors have been forced to regroup and to adapt their business strategies to the changing climate...
...software, giving me features I'd never be able to figure out, let alone use. So far that hasn't been my experience. Word, for instance, looks like my old program but has a number of improvements, such as better grammar and spelling checkers and menus that adapt to the way you use them...
...competitive economy that is as nimble as the rapidly changing marketplace demands. To make it work, he has placed his bets on creating a flexible, U.S.-style labor market in which companies are free to hire and fire as they please. He also needs people who are willing to adapt to new realities. Koreans like Chung "are breaking the old attitudes," Kim told TIME. "They have the frontier spirit...
...picked a concentration, chose a blocking group, got randomized, camped, punched and winnowed our way through activities and people. What we are now is, to some degree, the culmination of an extensive process of refinement and specialization; the Darwinian forces of our environment have forced us to adapt, grow elaborate plumage or camouflage, and develop idiosyncrasies or talents we wouldn't have imagined possessing when we first arrived...
...have a lot of smart kids...do we want our children to be global and able to adapt, or do we want them all be sorts of physicists?" she asks...