The pressure to adapt squeezed the builders' cash, leading several top companies to reduce construction and sales efforts while credit evaporated.

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Still, as new approaches to innovation, diversity and developing markets alter the underlying business model, leaders are under pressure to adapt.

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The social-cultural adaptations that females are under more pressure to adapt to than males, are a key issue in why females may be missed in a diagnosis, however the androgyny and anorexia association may also contribute as factors to behavioral impairments associated with ASD, because of social-cultural pressures to adapt to gender roles that androgynous individuals may not be comfortable with.

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There are no actual life-and-death scenarios in the business world, but that is not why business leaders regularly fail to adapt under pressure.

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The exigencies of the new-style labour market will put increasing pressure on governments not only to dismantle obsolete labour regulations, but to adapt to the growing need of both employers and workers for more flexible pensions, training and in the United States health care.

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