Word: adapts
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...stem cells from the brains of rats and put them in bone marrow and watched, in astonishment, as they spewed out blood cells. True, they did not form all the different blood-cell types, just a few. But until then no one had known that adult stem cells could adapt even that much to their environment...
...committee on resources has presented a powerful indictment of the central administration's excessively complicated and overly bureaucratic financial system. Even though FAS is the largest of the University's schools, many Faculty members know little more about University spending than the size of the endowment. Project ADAPT, a $112 million project that was supposed to make the system more transparent by centralizing each school's financial information, has become a headache for both faculty and administrators. Ironically, many of its major design flaws arose because of a lack of communication between developers in the center and its primary users...
Ballmer: Bill's settling in quite well. He's spending most of his time on the key issue: how the experience of using the Internet will change significantly five to 10 years from now and how we can adapt to that. He's not spending any more time with his family; he's on about the same schedule that he was on when...
...report expressed disappointment that Project ADAPT--a recently implemented series of computer programs intended to organize and collect University information--has not yet been able to give FAS more explicit financial information...
Rudenstine said the administration had hoped ADAPT would increase financial communication between the central administration and FAS, but admits ADAPT has not yet accomplished this mission...