Word: adapts
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...Humans adapt to the most difficult circumstances. Strangely, I began to look forward to my solitary dining. At Harvard, people are in your face 24 hours a day--in the morning when mysterious singing would drift through the ventilation system into the shower, during section and then again at 3 a.m. when one's roommates host a party. I needed space to think; in the Union, everyone left me alone...
...million years ago, as any schoolchild who knows his prehistoric zoology can tell you, some adventurous fish managed to hoist themselves onto their stubby fins and crawl clumsily out of the swamps to forage for food. Once these primeval creatures were on terra firma, their offspring began to adapt to their new environment, natural selection (over tens of millions of years) favoring those that developed features well suited to life on land: paws, hooves, knees, joints, fingers and thumbs. Thus, as generations of schoolchildren have learned, did these marine creatures give rise to frogs, birds, dinosaurs and all the rest...
Wage inequality among American workers will continue growing unless the public and private sectors develop a plan to adapt to an increasingly technological world, U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich said Wednesday night at Radcliffe College...
...trying to regain our rights, we are discovering that we have no rights left. We are losing the essential benefits of a socialist society-the right to work, the right to a free education, the right to housing." The children in her classrooms may be able to adapt to the new system, she says, but her own generation is lost. "We're the discarded generation. Our mentality, our habits are of a previous era. If you're past 30, you have no future. You won't get a new job; you can't start a new life...
Cash's ability to adapt to a new teaching stylewas "amazing," McKenney said...