Word: adaptions
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...Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 for speaking to a white woman in a rural Mississippi town. As in real life, the murderer is acquitted by an all-white jury, but over the next 30 years the murderer's family, unable to adapt to the new ways brought on by the civil rights movement, falls into poverty. The victim's family seeks solace in the North but falls prey to the evils of the inner city. In clean, elegant prose, Campbell offers a powerful reminder that racism is a crime for which everyone...
Harvard will adapt its play to the situation and the opponent. The offense should attack more directly, attempting to pepper shots at Dartmouth goalkeeper Brain Wiese all game long...
...nonvirtuosos will spend significant stretches of their adulthood rediscovering the single life. Current trends suggest that this will be particularly true of women, both because they live longer than men and because they are less likely to remarry. Women will adapt by developing new types of relationships: dating younger men, seeing more males in platonic friendships and living together in groups with other women, not unlike the Golden Girls model. Computer and videophone dating services will help with matchmaking far more than they do today...
...adapt to new environments...
...argue among themselves about whether it will be five or 10 or even 20 more years before dictation systems are that smart. For court reporters, stenographers or anyone else whose primary job is to put spoken words onto paper, that time might be well spent figuring out how to adapt to the technology -- or, if that's not possible, looking for a new career...