Word: adaptive
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...they raised camel; now they're farming," says Yun Jin Feng, a professor at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University who has been studying local grasslands for 50 years. Scientists agree that Beijing's attention to the issue has helped the land, but working with herders to find a way to adapt to their changing environment will be crucial to any lasting solution...
...their negotiations with the publishing house. Pacheco said that the organization would continue to adjust its franchise to the changing market for travel guides. “Let’s go is re-launching its website this year,” she said. “We will adapt to the needs of our readership, so we’re not sure how we’re going to change of the next few years.” Gelfand and Pacheco said a decision on publishing post-St. Martin’s would likely have to be made once...
Hermann insists that whatever designs YSL offers, it should?it must?adapt to choices women are making at the moment. "Monsieur Saint Laurent said, 'We are dressing the woman of the street,' meaning a real woman, not a woman who is in the dream of the designer," Hermann says. "If you look at what we are doing today, the girls and the bags [of course, the bags], are still reflective of that. But now women are choosing?choosing many lives?and we must be superaggressive and reactive to those choices...
...equally game opponents playing under foreign pool conditions. “The pool we played in [for the St. Francis match] wasn’t the same size as a normal pool,” co-captain Chris Ludwick said. “We just didn’t adapt as well as we should have, and we weren’t quite as quick as we needed to be.” After falling, 15-7, against Saint Francis, the Crimson was able to erase the memories of its Brooklyn opponents and ended the night on a positive note...
...surprising security adviser so far is his old friend former FBI director Louis Freeh. Freeh's stewardship of the FBI during the eight years before the bureau's most spectacular failure makes him an unusual choice. The 9/11 commission report concluded that Freeh and his FBI had failed to adapt to reality: "Freeh recognized terrorism as a major threat ... [His] efforts did not, however, translate into a significant shift of resources to counterterrorism," the report found. "Freeh did not impose his views on the field offices...