Word: adaptive
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Wage inequality among American workers will continue growing unless the public and private sectors develop a plan to adapt to an increasingly technological world, U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich said Wednesday night at Radcliffe College...
...trying to regain our rights, we are discovering that we have no rights left. We are losing the essential benefits of a socialist society-the right to work, the right to a free education, the right to housing." The children in her classrooms may be able to adapt to the new system, she says, but her own generation is lost. "We're the discarded generation. Our mentality, our habits are of a previous era. If you're past 30, you have no future. You won't get a new job; you can't start a new life...
Cash's ability to adapt to a new teaching stylewas "amazing," McKenney said...
Roiter feels that her role as an elder co-captain helps her teammates to adapt as well--particularly to the game pressure...
...situation is a lot like the one Ed Muskie faced when he ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972. Muskie failed to accommodate the Democrats' antiwar majority and his attempt, he later said, was a mistake because "it destroyed my core support." Like Muskie, Dole is now trying to adapt himself to the changing center of gravity in his party. That he should have to make the effort at all tells you how far rightward the G.O.P. has tilted. Until now, no one has challenged Dole's conservatism. However, evidence of Dole's compassion--his support for school lunches, food...