Word: adjustments
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...makings of an A-list mama brawl. But Jolie, whose adopted children Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 2, are from Cambodia and Ethiopia, later issued a statement saying her words had been taken out of context: "I feel we must encourage everyone to be supportive so that every child can adjust nicely to their new home." Offer up Brad to baby sit, Angie, and this whole thing may just blow over...
...buzzing fluorescent light setting an appropriately somber tone for their downfall. Denny Hastert, the hulking former Speaker of the House, shuffled jovially through the halls, no longer second in line for the presidency, with a sharply diminished security staff of one rather short bodyguard. "That's life, you adjust," he said...
...KNIGHT: I like the game, I always have, really. I liked it as a player, I enjoyed having the opportunity to coach it. It's a game that tests your abilities to see or improvise or adjust or maintain all of those things. And I've enjoyed the opportunity to work with kids. Hopefully, I've helped them become better prepared for whatever's in store for them...
...converts and, fused with the Republican Party, flexing powerful political muscles. And in the Vatican, the conservatism of John Paul II found its natural successor in the austere and more thoroughgoing orthodoxy of the new Pope, Benedict XVI. There seemed no stopping this cultural surge, just various attempts to adjust to it, restrain it from violence and temper its extremes...
...first, she says, it was hard to adjust to this new reality...