Word: adapters
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...bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...
...importance of foreign relations because we are serving overseas, staring the enemy in the eye. And we understand the magnitude of global warming because we are the ones who will be here when the ice caps melt. Young people today are more complex, more intelligent, better equipped to adapt to change and more understanding of the benefits of everything from technology to diversity. Look at the faces in the story. Each one says, "Yeah, I may be young, but I know what I'm doing and where I'm going. Do you?" The candidate who wins our vote...
...always try to adapt,” Crum said. “We learn about new technology and add it to our alert system so that we can always alert people in the way they prefer to be alerted...
...Harris said that certain areas, specifically “Societies of the World” and “the United States in the World,” do not directly match up with old areas, making it more difficult to quickly adapt old courses...
...matter how attractive that message may be to those who feel politically and economically marginalized, it won?t be enough to bring down the government. Still, there are signs Abdullah may be trying to adapt. In the upcoming elections, Abdullah's ruling UMNO party is running a younger crop of candidates with fewer ties to Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, the architect of the country's affirmative-action policies. Abdullah says he needs "one or two more terms" to successfully complete various economic projects he has started. One more term seems certain. But how long his administration lasts after that...