Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about what the employer is looking for, the better you can tailor your presentation. If you are an undergraduate, graduating senior, or graduate student seeking summer or part-time employment, your resume will be a presentation that documents your general qualifications, such as your ability to learn quickly, to adapt to new environments, to research, analyze, and solve problems, to work with and lead a team, to follow instructions, to deal with ambiguity, to make decisions, and to communicate effectively...
...There's no denying that whites spread diseases and caused mass genocides," said Ian Brown, the head curator of the museum. "Yet at the same time Indians were no passive reactors, often they would adapt creatively...
Amid these shifting security sands, Western Europe is also seeking to adapt to a changing world economic order in which America's pre-eminence has eroded as fast as its foreign debt has grown. Project 1992 is a response both to a global economic leadership vacuum and to the growing commercial challenge posed by North America, Japan and the fast industrializing economies of Asia. The opening up of Western Europe's protected national markets will hurt inefficient firms, but the hope is that enough competitive winners will emerge to ensure that Western Europe has its champions in the 1990s...
...rain forest is deceptively fragile. Left to itself, it is an almost self-sustaining ecosystem that thrives indefinitely. But it does not adapt well to human invasions and resists being turned into farm- or ranchland. Most settlers find that the lush promise of the Amazon is an illusion that vanishes when grasped...
...movie for PBS, which he will also direct, about a love affair between an FBI agent and the daughter of a man he hounded to death; "a Victorian rock musical about Oscar Wilde"; and a semiadventure set in Tibet. For the stage, he and Glass hope to adapt Andre Malraux's novel of revolutionary China in the 1920s, Man's Fate, and Hwang is also writing what he opaquely terms a "multicultural farce...