Word: adapt
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...film, mainly concerned with the trials faced by an onscreen Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) after he agrees to adapt Orlean’s book into a screenplay, is no kinder to its script’s author—which Orlean said led her agent to employ an unusual argument as he convinced her to approve the script...
...adapt itself to that environment if it is to remain in a central collective security institution in the 21st century,” he said. “My job as assistant secretary-general for policy coordination is to try to help the U.N. build a more solid planning capacity so that we can get ahead of the curve on all the world’s crises instead of reacting to them...
...hopes will prove "he understands the challenges that people face every day," in the words of Bartlett. One of Bush's signature lines in his new stump speech is "This world of ours is changing," and his new proposals are meant to show that his government could help families adapt...
...pink-footed goose nests will be lost, but says that the number represents just 1.5% of such nests in Iceland; the birds are not a threatened species. Arnalds also acknowledges that part of the herd of calving and spring-grazing reindeer may be affected - but the animals could well adapt to the change. Apart from environmental damage, Sigfússon believes Iceland's image is suffering as a result of the Alcoa smelter and the Kárahnjúkar power projects. "We are putting ourselves in a developing-country situation," he says. "All the aluminum will be exported elsewhere...
Kamarck did not elaborate on precisely what steps the government ought to take to adapt, but she said that interagency territoriality currently hampers the fight against terror...