Word: adaptive
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...because I think Ferragamo should be Ferragamo everywhere in the world. We made some adjustments maybe in the color, maybe in size. We have our people in Asia who come to Italy and work on merchandising. Ultimately, the customer decides, and you should always adapt...
...tempo than we’re used to,” senior co-captain Brady Weissbourd said. “They hit 600, but a lot of it was sort of tips and off-tempo stuff. They did catch us off our guard. It took us a game to adapt and be on our toes. [But] the next three games were great.” Harvard rallied in the second contest, starting off with an 8-5 lead over Stevens. But the Crimson couldn’t break away, and both teams remained neck and neck, keeping within two points...
Tammy said, “[Competitors] have to learn very quickly how to adapt and how to handle those situations...
Think of him as a chameleon. Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Prime Minister, owes his survival to an ability to adapt his political persona to the prevailing circumstances. During his 24-year exile from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, he dropped his given name and went by "Jawad," to avoid detection by the dictator's spies. Returning to Baghdad in 2003, Maliki seemed no different from the legion of Shi'ite partisans who took up posts in the U.S.-installed interim government. He brought vigor and venom to his job on the committee responsible for purging the government of Saddam...
...McDonald's is winning fans in Europe - and in standoffish France in particular. According to Berger, after laboring for years in France with the greasy-spoon label imposed by detractors (as le mal bouffe, or junk food), the company has of late made very determined and demonstrative efforts to adapt menus, tailor to hygiene sensibilities and communicate with clients on dietary and nutritional questions that have long dogged its food. "It has introduced salads, begun using certain traditional French cheeses on burgers and told clients, 'Our food is good food, but it isn't meant to be eaten every...