Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean and her followers. Unlike the miners, who attracted considerable sympathy during their strike, the printers are perceived by the public as overpaid and underworked. "Fleet Street is one of the great bastions of Luddism," observed a senior government official. "The print unions, which have rejected every attempt to adapt to the future, are now washed up on a very lonely shore...
...community, of widely differing styles has served to enhance all of them; people may be and do, as well as think, very different things and still be valued in this world. In too many institutions deviations from a common mode appear (even to the deviant) as failures to adapt...
Krayer doesn't think adjusting to a new caliber of play will be easy, but Matthews feels that the St. Paul's legend has the skills and the heart to be an impact player right away. His intelligence, vision, unselfishness and experience in a big rink should help him adapt to playing on a top college team...
Manor said he sees the seminars as a chance to compare "how traditional civilizations modernize" and adapt to industrialization. Today's meeting runs from 12:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Seminar Room 2 of Coolidge Hall...
...Markets. A rapidly changing world economy demands that companies adapt to new business conditions. Rather than lobbying to protect dying industries, U.S. firms should be more aggressively looking for fresh opportunities. Some Japanese firms have been particularly successful at this. In the early 1960s the Seiko Group, a leading watch company, realized that high growth there was ending. Using technology developed for watchmaking, the company turned to other fields. Today Seiko prospers by selling a line of computers and printers under the Epson brand in addition to its watches...