Word: adaptiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...development of new wing shapes and quieter, more powerful engines, both of which might eventually lead to improvements in commercial planes. An order for cargo transports that has pitted McDonnell Douglas YC-15 against Boeing's YC-14 could have that effect. The manufacturers are also trying to adapt existing jetliners to new uses. Boeing has already developed a smaller version of its original jumbo jet called the 7475P. It will carry 100 fewer passengers (capacity: 280 seats), burn 10% less fuel and fly much faster than its parent. These advantages persuaded Pan Am officials to stretch the airline...
...philosopher John Locke who had all kinds of advice about child rearing) and have sought out the best psychological methods or techniques for handling their young children, the best "learning environments" for educating them-and having done so, been found winners. The children of these elect "cope" well, "adapt" well, are able to assert themselves without "anxiety," get along with others without too much "frustration." In both instances one detects at least a thread or two of Utopian thinking. Whether it be prayer and Christian piety or psychological "insight" and the "sensitivity" that is offered in "groups" or by individual...
Ostensibly, he is an assistant librarian; actually, his entire life is spent in pursuit of love. He may be threadbare, even unprepossessing, but his willingness to adapt himself to any woman's whims and moods makes him irresistible. He will stop at nothing to get his way, and he never stops. "Life with Norman," says his wife Ruth with bitter understatement, "is full of unexpected eye movements...
Bordley has worked hard to adapt to college competition. Lee calls him, "the most teachable wrestler I've ever had. He's a rapid fire learner...
...short speech, Udall said that the "country was ending an era of an imperial presidency, cold war attitudes, and cheap resources" and that "the country must adapt to these changes...