Word: adapt
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...consumer confidence sunk? No. "Judging from history, human beings have demonstrated a remarkable capacity to adapt to extraordinarily adverse circumstances... I expect the same adaptability to become evident in the present situation." Are the markets? Again, no. "These adjustments in prices and in the associated allocation of resources, when complete, represent one-time level adjustments, without necessary implications for our longer-term growth prospects...
When Summers was selected as the 27th president of Harvard University last March, many wondered how the former Secretary of the Treasury would adapt to a higher education leadership post...
...We’re trying to tread this ground between totally throwing out these traditions and just letting them do exactly what they’ve always done,” Illingworth says. “We need to adapt these old traditions into something that’s at least somewhat consistent with the rest of the College...
...devices, Rover is sure to find many ways to let his owners know exactly how he feels about his isolation, whether by soiling the house or destroying furniture...Andersen provides practical advice to help all owners change their dog?s - and their own - behavior in order to adapt to the demanding realities of 21st century living...
...Arabs cite Israel as the main cause of their extremism, it means that their extremism can only be halted once they change their attitude to Israel. The present threat will not diminish until the Arab world begins to adapt to the process of democratization that the West has been undergoing for a few hundred years. The first requirement of such adaptation is self-accountability, and the essential sign of such self-accountability will be the ability to accept the reality of a Jewish state. The fuel of antisemitism is more explosive even than the jet fuel that brought down...