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Margulies went on to participate in the early planning stages for Project ADAPT, a $50 million multi-year initiative to overhaul the University's aging accounting system and unify the nine schools' finances into one central database. Planning for ADAPT began in 1993, and the newly computerized system is in full operation today...
...like other nations, the U.S. will have to adapt to a new century. With a global economy that will be increasingly knowledge based, we will no longer be able to permit unequal educational opportunities. Schools will need to be open to competition and subjected to standards so that we avoid creating a two-tiered society. We also must realize, as both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt did, that capitalism can be efficient but it can also be cold. America's social fabric is strong when it weaves together rewards for individual initiative and neighborly compassion for all members of the community...
...Intel is at a crossroads right now,? says TIME Business correspondent Daniel Kadlec. ?Their stock is down; their margins are down and competition from cheaper chip manufacturers is up. It?s not a bad time to turn over the reins, because the company is having to adapt itself to new business environment...
...firmly established that it has been included in the last two rounds of presidential debates. In both '92 and '96, the Clinton camp insisted on it, and no wonder. The most painful moment in either campaign came in watching George Bush and Bob Dole struggle feebly to adapt themselves to this alien venue. Bill Clinton glided through the town meetings, reveling in the chance to display his almost superhuman empathy. But Bush and Dole were older gents, from a generation that considered reticence a virtue and self-exposure a weakness--not, in other words, town-meeting material. They...
...Kong the big question was this: Would the H5 reassort with a common human strain to produce a new virus that was as lethal as H5 but could be passed along by a human sneeze? Or would this new H5 virus, through repeated exposure, find some other way to adapt to human hosts? "That's an interesting point," says Shortridge, "because it raises questions about the 1918 pandemic. Did a similar sort of thing happen...