Word: adapts
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...India may not have much time to adapt. China, Russia and the Ukraine are rapidly emerging as rivals. One Indian executive laments that he just lost out on a contract unexpectedly after offering to do the job at the standard Indian rate of $4,000 per month for each animator; a Russian competitor undercut him, agreeing to do it for just $1,800 per person. India's schools will have to start churning out thousands of qualified animators each year?before a new generation of Russian and Chinese animators figures out the fine art of making cartoon bulls talk...
...says that she expects extracurriculars and Houses will adapt to the increase, and that she hopes students will not see the new push for study abroad as just another added requirement...
...major review of the undergraduate curriculum at this point in time? As University President Lawrence H. Summers often reminds us, no institution, no matter how strong, should go for more than 25 or 30 years without critical self-examination. Harvard must adapt to the profound changes in society. Moreover, the interconnected worlds of scholarship and teaching have changed significantly in many fields, and we must think collectively about what and how we teach, and for what purpose. The rapid rate of curricular innovation and change over the past several years far outpaces what we had seen during the period from...
Martha Fuller, a union negotiator who has been working at Harvard since 1963, said workers facing layoffs and reassignment need to adapt to the University’s changing priorities...
Halliburton's CEO, Dave Lesar, points out that "there are very few companies in the world that could or would adapt this quickly while, at the same time, [financing] an operation of this magnitude." He's right: only two other U.S. companies, DynCorp and Raytheon, bid for this kind of massive logistical responsibility in the last bidding round. Under the terms of its LOGCAP contract, KBR had less than three weeks to provide 27 dining facilities throughout Iraq for 120,000 troops...