Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumble in software. Lotus and Microsoft, the top independent U.S. producers of personal-computer programs, each announced plans to invade the other's turf. The battleground: the $400 million market for spreadsheets, or electronic business ledgers. Microsoft, which sells Excel software for Apple Computer's Macintosh models, plans to adapt its program for IBM- compatible computers. Lotus, which designed the best-selling 1-2-3 program for IBM machines, promises to bring out a version of that software for the Mac. Microsoft -- led by Bill Gates, its boyish-looking billionaire chairman -- may have an edge. The IBM version of Excel...
...bizarre story began five years ago, when Justice granted a $10 million contract to Inslaw, a Washington-based software company, to adapt its Promis computer program for use by U.S. Attorneys in keeping track of legal cases. Within a year Justice and Inslaw got into a dispute over the terms of the deal, and the department withheld the first $1.8 million worth of payments due the company. Nonetheless, Justice kept the software that had been delivered, and distributed it to the U.S. Attorneys. Inslaw, meanwhile, slid into bankruptcy proceedings...
Some industry experts predict that the Gap will regroup in time for Christmas. In San Francisco and two other locations the company is trying out a tony kind of store, new for the Gap, called Hemisphere shops, to cater to an upscale market. "We're going to adapt," vows Drexler. "It's a matter of speeding up our creative process." And despite last week's setback, the Gap remains one of the most profitable chains in the country. "I see some hopeful developments for 1988," says Loeb. "You do sometimes have a season that is wrong, but that doesn...
These new Soviet policies raise many questionsfor American scholars, according to Mark N.Kramer, a Kukin Fellow at the Center forInternational Affairs. "You need to ask ifGorbachev will be around to implement his program,if it will work, how the Soviets will adapt, andif it is in our interest to have Gorbachevsucceed," he said...
Vrdolyak didn't want the votes of Blacks. Daley never had to confront his prejudice because in his time the Black vote was still disenfranchised. But while Daley never dealt with the Black vote; Vrdolyak did--and this latter day boss did not adapt to let Blacks into the machine on an equal level...