Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...factory workers to work and put servicemen and -women in the implementation stage, and now we are just laying them off with no conversion plan. If it were me, I would be organizing a strategy to maintain and develop a high-growth, high-wage base so we can adapt to change instead of being punished...
...course, whenever such sea changes are occurring, there's lots of controversy, sometimes even civil war. But with time, we adapt. Racial prejudice lives on, but few Americans today believe in slavery -- or even segregated drinking fountains. Not every man is comfortable working for a woman, but relatively few believe women should be denied the right to vote -- or even the right to run a small country (Britain comes to mind) or join the Army...
However, Matsuyama expressed hope that Japanese and American politics were slowly integrating and learning to adapt to each other's extreme forms of democracy...
Does Buchanan really use "Dukesque racial code words"? No. You just took his words out of context. What Buchanan did was to express his opinion that America is a Western nation. To illustrate his point, he merely said that one million English immigrants would probably adapt more easily to American society than would one million Zulu immigrants. Does anyone really doubt that this is true? You not only do not know what he was trying to say, you don't seem to care either...
...primary competition in both parties quickens, the importance of broadcast advertising escalates. Democrats face contests in 22 states this week and next. This brutal pace precludes extended personal campaigning in any one state, forcing candidates to adapt their strategies to how much they can advertise and how much free exposure they...