Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does it having to combat the perception that his time has already passed. Nevertheless, says Mack McLarty, one of Clinton's oldest friends and now a counselor to the President, "he feels quite hopeful. He's not frustrated or blue or disappointed. He has an ability to adapt, to figure out a way to get things done." In this case, getting things done means becoming the first Democrat to win two terms since Franklin Roosevelt. And if he succeeds, Clinton will have one more thing to figure out: how to turn victory's reward into something more than four years...
...Restoration is bringing the building back to its original condition," Venturi said. "And at the same time there is renovation because the building has to adapt to modified uses...
...only be to the good, it may be marriage itself-along with the most basic institutions like the workplace-that continues to need refining. "I would say we're in a stalled revolution," says Hochschild, "Women have gone into the labor force, but not much else has changed to adapt to that new situation. We have not rewired the notion of manhood so that it makes sense to men to participate at home. Marriage then becomes the shock absorber of those strains...
...bring in the additional capital that Cuba desperately needs. In each meeting, Castro vows that he will never abandon socialism but also promises to continue holding open an economic window to the breezes of the free market. ``We have to be ready to conduct the necessary reforms to adapt our country and our economy to the present world situation,'' he says. Rough translation: until Castro gets his country up and running again, he will use capitalist tools to survive. ``But,'' he insists, ``without renouncing our ideals!'' The way out is proving a difficult road for Castro's most loyal minions...
...communist saw holds that capitalists will gladly sell the rope that can be used to hang them. Fidel Castro is trying to adapt that maxim to secure a financial lifeline from the U.S. It is an article of faith in Havana that if only Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would rescue Cuba's economy. Last summer Castro tried to force the Clinton Administration into negotiations about improving ties by allowing more than 33,000 Cubans to flee the island for the U.S. The ploy did not work; the U.S. still...