Word: adapt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Education, I'll never destroy," says Moore. "Education is always reached for, and I'll always fight for it. We need it...but you have two minds here, like I say. You have two minds, You have to think Indian and you have to think English, to learn, to adapt...
...reservation construction workers are learning a trade. At the same time they are building their own homes and their neighbors' homes. The fisherman feeds his peers. People work for the community, not exclusively for themselves. The value systems are so different for these two cultures that many Indians cannot adapt to white ways. Stripped of the security and otherworldliness of the reservation, they feel diminished, torn...
From the questions it was clear that the Justices were struggling to adapt the most perplexing social questions into a manageable legal framework. They were obviously not comfortable. Justice Lewis Powell, normally the most courteous of Virginia gentlemen, uncharacteristically attacked Colvin: "We are here primarily to hear a constitutional argument," he said softly. "You have devoted 20 minutes to belaboring the facts, if I may say so. I would like help, I really would, on the constitutional issues...
...coming campaign on the government's racial policies. Even more crucial, perhaps, it may prove to be a final showdown in the 200-year-old cultural and political war between South Africans of English descent and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners. The Afrikaners' ability and willingness to adapt, if only to survive, are yet to be tested. But knowledgeable observers believe that a convincing electoral victory would allow Vorster to relax the apartheid laws and work toward peaceful settlements in Namibia and Rhodesia-much as Charles de Gaulle was able to pacify the French right and yet also...
...that athletic recruiting is a necessary part of maintaining a good athletic program, and part of keeping up the good image that helps the school "sell itself." Robert B. Watson '37, retiring athletic director and former dean of students, credits the College's active recruitment program with helping Harvard adapt to the post-World War II generation of students. "You've just got to have a varied student body, and that includes athletes, if you're going to continue to attract the right kind of students, he says. As a result, the ancient taboo against recruiting in any form does...