Word: adaptiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...present in simple layman's terms the latest advances in human sciences. His technique seemed vastly oversimplified to some, but others found it both charming and instructive-as when he labeled the boy on the burning deck a moron, because "he did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation...
...sexual equilibrium. But then would could tolerate Eliot Gould's lines in Getting Straight: "She's a good scientist, lousy lay"; Candice Bergen's lines, "I didn't even feel like a date-you didn't buy me popcorn" or anonymous gems: "Women have that charming ability to adapt to whatever man they're with...
...looking faces in the patterns of tree bark and in the threatening shadows of matted grass." But during his isolation he discovered that "solitude in a primitive environment awakens lost skills and sensibilities; it is why so many people come to Alaska. Despite my fear, I gradually begin to adapt to the surroundings," he reports. "I spend part of the day splitting firewood; it is satisfying work. I keep thinking about that beautiful lake a mile away that my guide has told me about, where I can watch the animals watering and hear the cry of the loon. Finally...
...greatest golfer in the world." And none of Jones' monsters are going to get in his way. "You have to accept things as they are," Jacklin said after last week's victory. "The golf course isn't going to be changed for me, so I adapt...
Italy's giant manufacturer of little cars, Fiat, has always demonstrated an ability to adapt to prevailing political and economic philosophies. Fiat's progressive president, Gianni Agnelli, supported Italy's "opening to the left," which brought Socialists into government, and he maintains an open dialogue with trade unions, including those dominated by Communists. Last week he visited Russia for a first look at the $800 million auto plant that his company is building for the Soviets. Yet back home in Turin, Fiat faces a labor crisis, fired in no small part by the activities of several hundred...