Adaptation to chronic stress has been observed in various stress models in humans as well as animals [ 38, 39], while an inability to adapt may result in diseased states.
The fate of its 8,000 employees is in doubt, as Clintons becomes the latest seemingly ubiquitous high street chain to fall victim to an inability to adapt in difficult economic times.
Brian Krzanich, CEO Intel: When Brian Krzanich took over as Intel CEO in 2013, the company was reeling from an inability to adapt from desktop computing to mobile devices.
But minimizing intractable pain, as do some doctors quoted in the article, by chalking it up as an inability to adapt to the "vicissitudes" of life, surely reveals less of the fibromyalgia patient's temperament than his doctor's.
The almost $8 billion that Hitachi lost in its last business year is testament to an inability to adapt quickly enough that is Japan's Achilles Heal.
People are classified as mentally retarded if their I.Q.'s are below 70 and they have an inability to adapt to daily life.
Experts classify people as mentally retarded if their I.Q.'s are below about 70 and they have an inability to adapt to daily life.
Some years more than 1,200 new students arrive and another 600 leave the school district, a result of mortgage defaults, fracturing marriages or an inability to adapt to the challenges of rural living.
Scientists are trying to help with a breeding program, but some believe a lack of genetic diversity which leads to inbreeding problems and an inability to adapt to change may doom the species.
But the stark difference between our policy in Cuba and our policy everywhere else forces me to believe that our policy is driven by old-school politics, inertia, or a simple inability to adapt to a new reality.
