Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actor reportedly earns more than $250,000 a year from the show.) Ken Kercheval, 45, whose Cliff Barnes is obsessed with ruining J.R., says of the murder attempt, "Actually, I hope it is me. I'd be an instant hero around the country." Victoria Principal, 30, had to adapt to the shifting of focus from Pamela to J.R., and she seems well adjusted. She calls Pamela "a little Statue of Liberty. When you have utter evil on one side, you can't have mediocre good on the other." Principal, who is herself statuesque enough to have posed...
Profits should grow. Starting this week, there will be afternoon as well as evening games. Says Chief Billie: "Indians have historically been able to adapt to their environment. Generating money is now the name of the game...
...must retain our perspective of what we jointly want and what we have jointly achieved. Our alliance is a living organism: it has time and again proved its vitality through its ability to adapt to changed conditions. After Europe's economic recovery it will increasingly become a political factor as well. This means no weakening but a strengthening of the alliance owing to European unification...
...Academic Planning Report. In 1976, Harvard signed a new contract with the Shah, agreeing, for $500,000, to design a master plan for RSKU. The new university was to be based largely on the present structure of Harvard. "We have modified the forms of the Harvard boards to adapt to the situation in Iran while retaining those central features which have served Harvard well over many years," the report states. At the end of the report, the joint Iran-Harvard Planning Commission concluded by recommending a timetable to open RKSU by the fall...
Steadfastly refusing to treat with Mandela, whom he calls an "arch-Marxist," South Africa's Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha nonetheless began advising his countrymen to "adapt or die" even before Mugabe's landslide victory. He endorsed certain racial reforms in the labor field and began pushing for a constitutional revision that would give nonwhites some limited political voice. But such gestures fall far short of black demands, and Botha is reluctant to press for more substantial changes in the face of strong opposition from his National Party's right wing...