Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Disney seemed to be taking a risk when it hired Taymor--an avant-garde director who uses puppets, masks and other non-Western theater techniques--to adapt its most popular animated film for the stage. It turns out to have been a masterstroke. Taymor has brought the same kind of let's-start-from-scratch inspiration that Walt and his fellow animators must have had when they created Mickey and Snow White and virtually invented the art of movie animation...
...Toshiba announced a different DVD standard for such discs that was supported not only by competitors like Hitachi but also by a major content provider, Time Warner. In January 1995, Matsushita, Sony's chief rival, threw its lot in with the enemy. By September, Idei conceded that Sony would adapt its technology to fit the Toshiba-Matsushita standard...
...report also questions whether the GOA might benefit some schools more than others, an issue Huidekoper said new financial systems will help to answer. The University is currently implementing Project ADAPT, a $50 million initiative to upgrade and coordinate financial record-keeping across the University...
Huidekoper said that within the next two years, ADAPT should make it possible to better report the GOA's intricate finances and that the University can then ask more complex questions about the equatability of the GOA to the different schools...
...international media was not English-dominated, we in America would have had much better model female consorts to follow. Take, for instance, Princess Alexandra of Denmark. A Eurasian former economist, she works hard to improve Danish trade. Or Crown Princess Masako of Japan '85, who was able to adapt herself to a most private and ancient family without a murmur. Look at Queen Noor of Jordan. As an American woman, she had been one of the first co-eds at Princeton, studying architecture. She was an anti-Vietnam activist. Then, at 25 she married a king, inheriting eight stepchildren...