Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Intel is at a crossroads right now,? says TIME Business correspondent Daniel Kadlec. ?Their stock is down; their margins are down and competition from cheaper chip manufacturers is up. It?s not a bad time to turn over the reins, because the company is having to adapt itself to new business environment...
...firmly established that it has been included in the last two rounds of presidential debates. In both '92 and '96, the Clinton camp insisted on it, and no wonder. The most painful moment in either campaign came in watching George Bush and Bob Dole struggle feebly to adapt themselves to this alien venue. Bill Clinton glided through the town meetings, reveling in the chance to display his almost superhuman empathy. But Bush and Dole were older gents, from a generation that considered reticence a virtue and self-exposure a weakness--not, in other words, town-meeting material. They...
...Kong the big question was this: Would the H5 reassort with a common human strain to produce a new virus that was as lethal as H5 but could be passed along by a human sneeze? Or would this new H5 virus, through repeated exposure, find some other way to adapt to human hosts? "That's an interesting point," says Shortridge, "because it raises questions about the 1918 pandemic. Did a similar sort of thing happen...
...findings underscore how rapidly HIV can adapt to its surroundings, making it devilishly difficult to develop effective vaccines. No one knows how many more subtypes of HIV will sprout in the next 40 years, but chances are they will be every bit as lethal as the ones we see today, if not more...
...that the new rules are in place, the Crimson wrestling squad will adapt accordingly to their ever-evolving sport. That means, without a doubt, more safety...