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Abrams said the Court should adapt its theory to its practice by asserting that the First Amendment protects the press's right to complete immunity from contempt citations in its coverage of trials...
Agrees Parsons, "I do believe the clubs ought to adapt or go extinct...
...suggests the call of a heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints at the theme of an encroaching Industrial Revolution to which this doomed family cannot adapt. In the splendidly insightful version now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the incident becomes a central metaphor. Just as the characters cannot resolve the objective truth of what they heard, so they cannot arrive at a shared truth about their moral dilemmas, or even realize that they...
Usually teams take a year, sometimes two, to adapt to a new coach. When Jape Shattuck left to pursue a career in sports law, Getman brought in a new system, new ideas, a new practice routine. Everything was new. Unfamiliar...
...veteran skaters in the man-up situation, Sweeney and Pawloski understand their responsibility to regulate the pace of play. "We have to adapt and set the pace, or slow it up and regroup," said Sweeney, who scored on one of the Crimson's five power plays against the U.S. Olympic Team Sunday...