Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against the most experienced guerrilla fighters in the world, but we tried to force much of the South Vietnamese military effort into conventional U.S. military forms. The whole Kennedy-McNamara-Johnson doctrine of slowly stepping up the levels of force was a failure. The enemy was always able to adapt and respond. The fantastic complexity of the U.S. command structure, the mystifying extra layer at Pearl Harbor, the tremendous logistical and bureaucratic component in our forces in Viet Nam -all of these deserve rigorous review. So do the American doctrines of airpower...
...soft crying, an enraged howl; instead of quiet chuckles, uncontrolled laughter, sometimes ending in a paroxysm of hiccups. Eating and sleeping schedules are irregular, and everything new requires long periods of difficult adjustment. Easy children-the most numerous category-are regular in habit, sunny in mood, quick to adapt. And the slow-to-warm-ups are just that: not very active at first, rather negative in mood, and likely to back off from new situations...
...difference between the dinosaur and man is that man is creating his own swift-changing environment to which he cannot adapt...
...modern political pollsters; in Norwalk, Conn. Roper first realized the value of polls in the late 1920s, when he became an ace clock salesman by sampling the tastes of his customers. He co-founded a New York market-research firm in 1933 and then became the first pollster to adapt scientific sampling techniques in forecasting an election; he predicted F.D.R.'s 1936 plurality within one percentage point of the popular vote. The Literary Digest-then the big gun of polling-picked Alf Landon as the winner. Though he conducted polls for FORTUNE and commented on public opinion...
...Committee also recommends that departments create a limited number of part-time faculty appointments in order to "adapt academic career patterns to the realities of life for some women and some men." It hopes part-time teaching would offer a viable alternative to those women who wish to remain in a "community of scholars" or do research while caring for their children...