Word: adapts
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Baseball is a sport steeped in tradition. True, part of baseball's strength over the decades has been its ability to change and continue adapt to its fans' desires. Still, some parts of the game have always been sacred, and should remain so. Baseball's traditions have been passed down from generation to generation of Americans. Baseball isn't broken...
...Vineyard might be perfect for the Clintons, there was some apprehension that the First Vacationers would not be perfect for a tiny community already stuffed to the gills with artists, writers, journalists, psychiatrists and academics so set in their reverse-chic ways that no newcomer could hope to adapt. These are people who congratulate themselves for not choosing to vacation among the canape-consuming classes in the Hamptons but use summer as a verb. Hunting, fishing or networking without a license is punishable by a $300 fine and deportation to the mainland...
Henry Lukas, who ran unsuccessfully in 1989 and 1991, said his experience as a teacher and administrator in the Cambridge school systems had shown him the need for the system to adapt to changing times...
...crash-lands in Manhattan's East River. So the Coneheads must make do in the land of the Bluntskulls. They make better than do. Despite their three rows of teeth and their tendency to use condoms as chewing gum, Beldar and Prymaat and their earthborn daughter Connie (Michelle Burke) adapt splendidly to New Jersey suburban life. For this is the Conehead version of that familiar Hollywood fable, the grelbon out of pluvarb (bird out of water -- there are no fish on Remulak...
...criticisms of the school centered around a major theme--that the Business School is being left behind by a slowness to change and adapt. But in an interview last month, Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur disagreed...