Word: adapt
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...baseball team before dedicating himself to basketball, and distinguished himself on the golf course and in pool halls. (“He could have jumped on a horse and figured that out by the end of the day,” Richardson says.) His ability to adapt to situations within games was evident in even the most minute aspects of his play...
...difficult conditions that hampered Bischoff and Potts also affected the women—competing at Connecticut College—forcing them to adapt their pairings in addition to adapting to the weather...
General Myers, in his assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, gives Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants credit for responding well to U.S. tactics, for instance, by improving their ability to communicate and move money undetected. "They've adapted their tactics," he says, "and we've got to adapt ours." In particular, Myers argues, "intelligence flow has to be a lot more exquisite than it's been." He says that in the early months of the war, the U.S. kept the enemy off balance with "bold" actions that carried "a large element of risk." Now, he says...
...conditions in Houston will partially dictate the way the competitors sail, with the weather forecast calling for open water and winds. That is a change from the usual on the Charles, which has light and shifting winds. The sailors who best adapt to the different conditions will be the ones with the most conservative plans of attack and the most improvement over the course of the weekend...
...philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Locke. And, yes, Shakespeare and Kant are also featured. The implicit logic behind Columbia’s list of mandatory texts is that some works are especially worthy of study, either for aesthetic or historical reasons. That said, Columbia has been willing to adapt its curriculum over time and, to popular acclaim, recently added the Koran to reflect the increasingly multicultural society in which the institution found itself. And, lest anyone decry the Columbia system as close-minded, it should be noted that, in addition to the Euro-centric humanities requirements, students there must take...