Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonathan Harr's bestseller is a difficult book to adapt because it's not a hero-conquers-all story. The main character is a flawed hero--John Travolta plays real-life lawyer Jan Schlictmann with fiery intensity and a stubborn arrogance. A Civil Action is a difficult movie to like precisely because we must watch his disintegration. But the film rewards your patience. It takes the standard legal thriller and in it finds something more substantial: a human drama defined by gray rather than black and white...
...ADAPT's human resources functions, including personnel and payroll records, will not be completed for another few years...
...Employees will be using less paper forms for a whole set of administrative processes," says Peter J. Segall, executive director of ADAPT...
Over the next year, ADAPT officials will continue their effort to train all University administrators--about 2,500 in total--to effectively use the system, Segall says...
...probe centers on HIID's work in Russia earlier in the decade, when its experts were hired to help the emerging democracy adapt to a capitalist economy. During these years, Harvard worked closely with pro-Western Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais...