Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result is that techies in large numbers -- engineers who lost jobs at the superconducting supercollider, doctoral students bored with their computer-science dissertations -- are heading for Wall Street. Says Diller: "The people who study science but are not themselves weirdos -- a small subset, people who can adapt to the real world -- become aware that they can make a lot more money...
...maintain its status and relevance in the 1990s, then it must adapt its methods to changing times. Male suffrage is a crucial first step...
...been frustrating not being able to practice," said Colligan, referring to the Crimson's indoor practices. "It might hurt us for the first few games, but then we should adapt...
Coleman, who got a masters degree from the Kennedy School in 1975 and one from the Graduate School of Education in 1976, said his years at Harvard "taught me to be able to adapt to different situations...
...Northridge quake -- which seismologists now said may have struck with two successive pulses -- was a superior vertical force. This caused some buildings that would have survived back-and-forth swaying to be subverted at their foundations. Accordingly, experts are looking at futuristic designs that will allow buildings to adapt to such tremulous variations. Japan, for example, has equipped buildings with computer-controlled systems that dynamically compensate for quake-induced motion; if an earthquake tips a building forward, these systems can activate massive weights and "thrusters" that force it in the opposite direction. Less expensive are suspension systems like the rubber...