Word: adaptive
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...Master Scholar). Apparently there was an earlier pedagogue in our crowd. For tax purposes or other bureaucratic reasons, the authorities in a few countries around 1810 ordered Jews to give up generic Hebrew titles. Like all Diaspora Jews over the centuries, the first Baratz did what seemed necessary to adapt, adding vowels to the B, R and Tz of Ben Reb Tzadik to produce Baratz. So Harold Baratz, in his own way, adapted. But he lived long enough to understand that his was the last generation in America to perceive a need for camouflage...
Some of the features that allow the twinsix-story structures to adapt so well include thebay windows, the low height, and the lead-coatedcopper mansard roofs, Ortale said...
...amber, geologists have identified a new culprit for the disappearance of the dinosaurs: bad air. The theorists calculate that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere fell from 35% to 28% over the course of 500,000 years and suggest that the dinosaurs' respiratory systems were unable to adapt to the change...
Universities must adapt to a new world market which places a premium on biliteracy, according to Juliet V. Garcia, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville...
...best thing about her show is that she actually shows you the technique instead of the recipe," said Francis W. Quinn '88. "She shows you how to do a chicken saute, and you can adapt it to other recipes for meats. She does a good job with the technique...