Word: adaptions
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...other group is composed of dodgers or deserters from working-class backgrounds with scanty formal education, who have run the border impulsively, often with no money and no immediate plans. He claims that the vast majority of that group are faring well too. "They have interesting jobs and adapt quickly to Canada," says Gardner. "Many of them are no longer exiles. They've become new Canadians...
...such harassment. On the other hand, most of the psychiatrists appear to suffer from unresolved authority conflicts. Take the exasperated analysis of Medvedev bv one Dr. Lifshits, the book's most visible villain: "Another person with his intellect would be able in time to adjust and adapt-this is the normal thing-but Zhores Alexandrovich is unable to do this. He just forges ahead, ignoring the reality situation...
Stein has excellent credentials as a thinker who can not only adapt to but also lead changes in economic thinking. In the late 1940s, he helped develop the concept of the "full employment budget" -the idea that the Government should gear expenditures not to estimates of what tax revenues actually will be but to what they would be if the economy were operating at full employment. Nixon finally enunciated that idea as official Government policy last January...
...Felix Adedeji has been having the same problem this year. When you have played against Pele and some of the best teams in the world, it's hard to adapt to an American college team. But Felix is making the adjustment now, and in the past two games he has helped us a great deal with his teamwork," Thomas said...
...like nature, is divided into organic entities. A rose is not a pear, and a pear is not a giraffe. Similarly, a novel is not a play and a play is not a film. Yet year after year the singular Anglo-American idiocy of trying to adapt a given work from one form to another goes on, a process that Louis Kronenberger once described as "cutting up a sofa to make a chair...