Word: adaptibility
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...lips ache from 40 years of smiling." The second result was his second (and last) novel, When William Came, an unsuccessful but percipient fantasy written in early 1913, about what England would be like under German occupation, and how a flabby society full of jokesters, hucksters and aesthetes would adapt to it. The third result was Munro's dramatic enlistment as a private soldier when the fighting broke...
Those ideas for moderating South Africa's rigidly segregationist policies of apartheid show every sign of being far weaker than Botha had once promised. Two years ago, Botha told his fellow Afrikaners they must "adapt or die" in confronting racial segregation. Using the same moralistic tones, he later declared: "I am more convinced than ever that there is only one course to follow: do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...effects may require costly remedies. To halt coastal erosion, dikes will have to be built, and a steadily rising water table may require protection for monuments like the Temple of Karnak. It will be still more difficult to get the 100,000 Nubians displaced by the big lake to adapt to the unfamiliar life of settled farmers on newly arable lands. But even with these problems, Mancy, who first gazed lovingly on the Nile as a youth in Cairo, remains enthusiastic. "Would I build the dam again?" he asks rhetorically. "I would...
...hands on enough aircraft to do the job. When they finally did get helicopters, repeated mechanical failures led some Californians to joke that the choppers were leftovers from the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran. Pilots and ground crews were unaccustomed to the spraying procedures and slow to adapt to the use of the viscous pesticide solution, which tended to clog pumping equipment. It was not until the end of the week that more than two helicopters were aloft at the same time. Observed a U.S. Department of Agriculture official: "I think Murphy's Law has taken over...
With their intensified militancy, growing numbers and new power, the blacks of South Africa are not likely to be bought off indefinitely by promises or good intentions. After he took office in 1978, Prime Minister Botha declared that South Africa must "adapt or die." His advice still holds good...