Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When all is finally lost, it's the failure to honor tradition, not the dopiness of clinging to it, that's blamed. Sam Peckinpah, who loved to celebrate bad-boyishness, apparently tried for years to adapt Max Evans' 1961 novel to the screen. It says something about the reach and persistence of decaying myth that British director Stephen Frears, creator of such eccentric delights as My Beautiful Laundrette and The Grifters, has succumbed to it. There's no need to follow his example...
...Searles noticed bear tracks in fresh snow near the golf course. He has become an ursine eco-evangelist. "This is the year 2000," he says, "and authorities still kill bears that did nothing wrong. My ambition is to change this." The gangly contractor adds, "Bears have shown they can adapt to us. Why can't we adapt to them?" Within the range of a middling seven-iron shot, at least four bears are adapting...
Walton viewed all these arguments as utter foolishness. He had been a small-town merchant. And he had seen the future. He had chosen to eat rather than be eaten. And anyway, he believed that small-town merchants could compete--if they would make major changes to adapt. As it turned out, of course, the consumer voted heavily with Walton. He gave America what it really wanted--low prices every...
...just depends on how you adapt to thegroup," she says, adding that she has scheduledevents progressively later in the day to avoidconflicts...
...also learned that a commitment to service is better understood as a commitment to people, and that it requires not only dedication, but the ability to adapt to and understand the real needs of others...