Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enter the cold war of the 1950s by raising McCarthyite doubts about Clinton's trip to Moscow. At any rate it is hard to find anything new in Bush's new world order. Even before communism's fall, Reagan was far readier to imagine a different world arrangement, to adapt and dream, than Bush has been. The opportunity offered by the rapid changes in Europe continues to slip away...
Without a single returning senior on the blueline, the Big Green defense relies heavily on less experienced players. Freshmen Dax Burkhart and Scott Dolesh must adapt quickly to the ECAC competition if they are to fulfill the coaching staff's expectations and handle the major roles they will be given as stoppers...
...Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 for speaking to a white woman in a rural Mississippi town. As in real life, the murderer is acquitted by an all-white jury, but over the next 30 years the murderer's family, unable to adapt to the new ways brought on by the civil rights movement, falls into poverty. The victim's family seeks solace in the North but falls prey to the evils of the inner city. In clean, elegant prose, Campbell offers a powerful reminder that racism is a crime for which everyone...
...other trend-setting muscle cars. When buyers flocked to small cars during oil crises in the 1970s, GM's failure to produce a winning model was ominous. "They had become so arrogant and efficient at defining trends that when a fundamental shift took place, they failed to adapt," says Shaiken. "They couldn't do anything radically different from what they had done before." The company's rush to downsize at the end of the decade led to the notoriously shabby quality of its X-car line...
Harvard will adapt its play to the situation and the opponent. The offense should attack more directly, attempting to pepper shots at Dartmouth goalkeeper Brain Wiese all game long...