Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Singapore can adjust to meet new challenges, insists Yeo, without adopting the West's "hard liberalism." But neither can Singapore be a model for many other countries. Setting aside democracy to concentrate on economic development can work for a while. But the resulting affluence breeds more demands for democracy, even in Confucian societies, and autocracy can rarely remain enlightened and uncorrupt for long. Just as Singapore's leaders have made the most of its small size and unusual cultural mix, so too leaders of other countries will have to find their own formulas for success...
...normal times, the automakers would trim expenses, adjust to new market trends and wait for business to improve, but these are not normal times. While the U.S. is making a modest comeback in car sales, Europe and Japan show no signs of a turnaround. And none of the world's major car markets are likely to return to the headlong expansion of the 1980s. That is a particularly painful prospect for the Japanese companies, which have justified continuing investment in new plants and models on the premise of selling ever more cars...
...present reform trends continue, it is possible that Russia might eventually open its doors to the world so wide that it will lose a great deal of its mystery. An inevitable leveling process is bound to take place as Russians adjust to new political institutions and market mechanisms. The perestroika kids who have come of age during the reform era already act as if they live in a different world from their parents' -- and they probably do have more in common with their video-culture peers around the globe than with Russians of the older generation. Still, it is hard...
...accuracy. I was, however, startled by the extent to which the man portrayed was the man I had known, if only briefly, 30 years before. I could not distinguish the actor from the man. Of course, we all tend to see what we expect to see. And we can adjust our memories to fit what we now think to be the facts. But the Malcolm X in the movie is the Malcolm with whom I spent some three hours in 1961: Believing, caring, learning. Ignorant of much. Not necessarily wise. Filled with energy, purpose and conviction. Apparently...
...fact, any change in the College's policieson race relations would adjust the jobs of boththe Foundation and the Office of Race Relationsand Minority Affairs, since between the two ofthem they should answer all student needs on theseissues...