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...ability to cover her teammates on defense while supporting them on offense has helped her adapt to different playing styles. For example, last year Johnson played a more defensive position of picking up loose players. This year, Scalise has her going one-on-one more which enables her to push up to offense. Already Johnson has recorded three assists this season--more than any player other than a forward...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Gia Johnson: Watching the Team Work | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

...ease with which Ferrante changed sports follows her personal belief that she can adapt to anything: "It's sort of bad in a way because I could be happy in a dump; things don't upset...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Two Soccer Players Make the Game Look Easy | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

Challenging his fellow Afrikaners to "adapt or die," Botha announced last week that he would seek new laws permitting black workers who do not have permanent resident status in white areas to organize trade unions. He also proposed changes that would permit blacks to eat in white restaurants and qualify them for higher-paying jobs now reserved for whites. Most shocking to traditionalist Afrikaners: suggestions of a possible repeal of the Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Act, the laws under which more than 15,000 South Africans have been prosecuted for marrying or having sexual relations across the color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Adapt or Die | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Chinese are obviously eager to learn from their new American friends. Host scientists urged the visiting journalists to make critical comments about their efforts. But, as one explained, "We cannot use all your advanced ideas and techniques. We must adapt them to Chinese skills and economic conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Long March for China | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...idea is to be flexible," said MacAusland. "We want to play out our own system, yes, but also to be able to adapt to other teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Shine, Quiet Quakers, 2-1 | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

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