"It's only in the last 10 years that Chadians have become reliant on charcoal, they can soon learn to adapt to something else, " said the environment minister, keenly expounding the virtues of gas.

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So after a few months' hard playing, it began to bow, something I had to adapt to, not having a second instrument.

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To Indyk, that kind of pronouncement was something a candidate can say on the campaign trail that doesn't easily adapt to the realities of complex international negotiations.

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Comcast is going to adapt unless the pay TV business crumbles the way long-distance telephone did becoming something no one would pay for at all.

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Japan began to adapt the Chinese writing system for its own use around 1, 500 years ago, and it is still something of a mixed blessing.

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