Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those women's clubs that have taken on more challenging projects seem to find members more willing to devote their time and energy to the cause. Other organizations will have to adapt their programs, schedules and rules in order * to survive. "I think we're waking up and deciding something needs to be done," says Carol Silvus, president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs. Some groups are holding more events at night and on weekends and trying to broaden their membership base. The Virginia federation has established an organization for deaf women, while New Jersey has formed...
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...