Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With their intensified militancy, growing numbers and new power, the blacks of South Africa are not likely to be bought off indefinitely by promises or good intentions. After he took office in 1978, Prime Minister Botha declared that South Africa must "adapt or die." His advice still holds good...
...investment strategy must adapt to the times; and since January 1, Cabot says, a glut of oil on the world market caused by increased production in the Middle East as well as stepped-up conservation efforts has made oil issues less attractive, reducing their prices by an average 15 to 20 per cent from what they were eight months ago. As a result, HMC has been selling off many of its petroleum holdings, especially those in international firms...
...replied: "I believe that this time the institutions of the Fifth Republic that have barred us from power for so long will contribute to keeping us there." It is a tribute to Charles de Gaulle that one of the most bitter opponents of his constitution is now preparing to adapt it to an entirely new set of circumstances...
...committee has worked with the faculty to design new courses and adapt old ones to emphasize the training of administrators. It has authorized a one-year masters degree program stressing leadership skills, a series of workshops for administrators, a Principals' Resource Center to provide in-service training, and a research proposal to study the effect of government policy on individual classrooms...
...space shuttle, however, will serve as a laboratory to help astronauts adapt to weightlessness after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) begins routine flights...