Word: apt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company back to profitability. But colleagues say that over the past year or so Bolduc had begun to seem impatient about his long wait to inherit the top job from Grace, who is suffering from lung cancer. Where previously Bolduc had treated his boss with deference, he was now apt to roll his eyes whenever the elderly Grace rambled on at board meetings. As a sign of his power, he began cutting off the older man's privileges. For one, he reduced Grace's personal corporate staff from about 10 to four. After taking away Grace's Gulfstream...
After all, television was still black and white, and radio shows were still the most popular form of entertainment. These were the days when drive-in movie theaters were local hangouts, families were more apt to stay together and Sweet 16 parties had nothing to do with the NCAA men's basketball tournament...
Masanori Fujimori, a former IBM software engineer, thinks the metaphor is apt. He left IBM two years ago to launch a firm that produces software for multimedia. Cruising the Internet has been good for his business, with newfound friends in the field passing along specialized software tools and lining up profitable interviews for him with U.S. entertainment-industry figures. Now, in a small, smoke-filled room in Kawasaki, Fujimori is at his keyboard nearly around the clock. ``By meeting other people on the Internet,'' he says, ``you find out who you really are.'' For Japan's multimedia industry, that search...
...oldest old are healthier than the merely old in several respects. Heart disease and stroke, for instance, have their greatest im-pact in the 50s through 80s for men and about 10 years later for women. Those who make it past the danger zones are less apt to be stricken at all. Similarly, Alzheimer's disease usually picks off its victims by the mid-80s. Perls found that men in their 90s outperformed octogenarians in tests of mental function...
...realize you understand it and then it hits you!'' In the end, adds Thompson, ``they have knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed to just passing a test.'' It is no coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation is an apt metaphor for the kind of ``constructivist learning'' promoted at the school: students must actively dig up information, then construct their own understanding from raw, observable facts. What the technology does is extend experience so that many more observations are possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster...