Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ADOPT ADAPT ADEPT" the Japanese corporate motto has always unnerved to Americans have never learned to accepted the utilization on our technological advance by an economic rival as flattery. Japan's ability to take American research developments, make modifications to stuff industrial needs, and surpass or at least match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows...
...artificial blood monopoly serves as a reminder to the U.S. that generousity may be rewarded in the hereafter but never will it advance our economic status. "Adopt, adapt, adept," may cause a shrug, but another saying should make us shudder. "Nice guys finish last...
opportunity, even if you seem to have enough clean ones. 2) Eat often because you never know when you will get another meal. 3) File your reports as early as possible to avoid end-of-the-day exhaustion. 4) Have faith; your body can and will adapt to the tortures of constant travel. The rigors of the campaign may be partly responsible for a major change that Beckwith has lately observed in the press corps. "It's more professional and far more serious than it used to be," he explains. "It's possible now for a flight attendant...
East German artists have also had to adapt. The regimentation they have experienced has inspired images that speak powerfully to East Germans. In one painting by Leipzig Artist Wolfgang Mattheuer, a modern Icarus with gossamer wings struggles to fly above healthy, ordered garden plots, where most of his neighbors are too busy to notice. A statue by Mattheuer offers a more telling glimpse of the dilemma that East Germans face. A frightened man, his face creased with worry, is shown removing a mask shaped like a sheep's head. But, as the East German artist explains, "he is just...
...veil of secrecy is drawn so tight that not only is it impossible to reconstruct the events of the past, but even to reveal the existence of a debate about the meaning of those events....One does not expect...university presidents to adapt Orwell's memory hole" to the governance of universities...