Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team must prepare its bevy of younger players for fierce, agressive college squash. One of the youngest, freshman Jordanna Fraiberg, must adapt to the psychological and physical intensity of college ball. As the 1989-90 U.S. and Canadian junior national champion, the top-seeded Fraiberg was raised in an intense squash environment. Her older brother, Jeremy, is one of the top two players on the men's team...
...this caravan of horrors persuasive by suggesting that tragedy was the destination his travelers sought. His prose got under the skin of . hapless Port and Kit and revealed their itch for romantic catastrophe. But movies are as different from novels as show is from tell. The director who would adapt this treacherous tale must find resources other than interior monologues and wan philosophizing. Bertolucci knew this when, after conquering China and Hollywood with The Last Emperor, he and co-screenwriter Mark Peploe approached The Sheltering Sky. "Instead of using language and psychology, I wanted to be more physical," he says...
Harvard's latest drive for "internationalization" of the curriculum seeks to adapt the university to the changing world. But is the solution to add more courses on Great Treaties Signed by Great...
...undergraduate, graduating senior, or graduate student seeking summer or part-time employment, your resume will be a presentation that documents your general qualifications, such as your ability to learn quickly, to adapt to new environments, to research, analyze, and solve problems, to work with and/or lead a team, to follow instructions, to deal with ambiguity, to make decisions, and to communicate effectively...
...question for the '90s is `what's the next act...How do we adapt to a decade of change that is already making the wild `80s look like a walk in the park?' Creativity in the individual determines if this nation wins in 1990," Welch said...