Word: adaptions
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...play, and the other team plays those same six horses in the last two. Because of the idiosyncratic dynamics between horse and rider, the advantage is huge for the home team playing on its own string—the mark of the exceptional polo player is the ability to adapt to any horse...
...Given the team’s results in the 2008-2009 year and its demonstrated ability to adapt to tough conditions, the rest of April is looking bright for Harvard...
...tentative plans to adapt the building for use by Lesley involve lowering the structure to ground level, removing the steeple, and transporting it to the opposite side of the lot on which it currently stands...
...people stopped counting after that) and an untold number of daughters before he died in the early 17th century. One big reason today's powerful men don't have as many kids as they could is a relatively new invention that our reproductive instincts haven't had time to adapt to: contraception. (See pictures of classic stars' families at LIFE.com...
...There is a second difficulty in making the case for trade during downturns. Trade is a global phenomenon; politics is national. When unemployment lines lengthen, politicians understandably feel that they have to respond to the immediate needs of their constituents, not those (to adapt an infamous phrase of Neville Chamberlain's) in a faraway country of which they know little...