Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emphasis on academic information technology follows on the heels of Project ADAPT, which is designed to overhaul the administrative computing system and centralize some functions...
There is another aspect, however, in which Clinton's presidency does not rate well at all. The ability to sense what is politically possible and adapt to it is one measure of a President. Clinton passes that test with the greatest of ease. Another test, though, is to sense the challenges looming in the future and prepare the nation to face them. That test Clinton has so far resoundingly flunked...
...these changes are, in fact, part of the natural life cycle of such rituals. "African traditions are not vanishing," says Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History. "They are changing. Even ceremonies that have been performed for hundreds of years have changed throughout the centuries as people adapt to new stimuli and new ideas." Still, there is a poignancy in Beckwith and Fisher's images, a sense that we are seeing some of the last things on earth that have not been subsumed by 20th century Western culture. Jason Clay, co-founder of Cultural Survival Quarterly, uses...
...examined not just tomorrow but today, not just one industry but all mankind, making the paradigm-shattering argument that what was really changing society was the radical acceleration of change itself. Future shock, the Tofflers said, is what happens when change occurs faster than people's ability to adapt to it. The book resonated for the 1960s counterculture, and in some ways it echoes even louder in the digital era. "People today," says Alvin Toffler, "are scared silly...
...administrative side, the center is investing $50 million over the next several years on Project ADAPT, an initiative designed to revolutionize the way the University deals with administrative data...