Word: adapts
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...knew this was a wrong thing to do. All right, that's a character failure. But there is also a temperamental failure, which is a lack of discipline and a lack of what for a better term would be an inability to learn from past experience, an inability to adapt to a hostile environment. I mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around his head...
...will it get? The answer depends in large part on how local economies like Pittsburgh's adapt. And here's a surprise: for a metropolis synonymous with America's declining industrial might, the no-longer Steel City seems in a better position to withstand a downturn than many other places...
...soldiers, PTSD and combat drama, and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Nelson says. “[McLaughlin] brought up that she saw parallels in the themes discussed and the play ‘Ajax’ by Sophocles.” McLaughlin decided to adapt “Ajax,” creating a new work set in Iraq with a female protagonist. “Ajax in Iraq” incorporates many aspects of the original Greek work—which considered the effects of the Trojan war on the Greek soldier Ajax?...
...offs have supplanted the simpler entertainments in the battle for the attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy—to issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express. As such, the story in this Sunday’s The New York Times that suggested that many members...
...adapt to leaner times, retailers are keeping fewer items in stock and many department stores are hiring fewer extra workers for the holidays. Shops selling necessities may weather the Christmas storm best. "The stores that will do well are the ones selling what you have to have to survive and selling it cheaply," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting and investment-banking firm. Says Barrow, the Burbank TV writer: "Every financial decision I make, I now ask myself, Do I really need this...