They are sprinkled throughout the country, particularly in the East and Midwest, left behind by companies that have gone out of business, were acquired or moved as they adapted to change.

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One points to a land origin in which lizards started to burrow, and as they adapted to their subterranean existence, their legs were reduced and lost - first the fore-limbs and then the hind-limbs.

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Just as they have adapted and grown stronger with each of the other changes, I know they will do so again.

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Maybe there is a better way to compensate people for keeping the beautiful exteriors of classic buildings intact as they are adapted to different uses, but the historic tax credit is one of the ways we do it.

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And the cost of installing and maintaining them is falling as they become better adapted.

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The programs have adapted as they've gone along.

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American groupware programs such as Lotus Notes are eventually adapted for Japanese use, but long after they have appeared in the English-speaking world.

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They are not adapted to living in temperate English habitats and as a result may struggle to survive here in the wild, particularly during periods of below zero temperatures.

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The common toad has not adapted as well to garden ponds as the common frog, as they need deeper water to spawn successfully.

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He wrote that many scientists, such as Newton and Galileo, were famous partly because they had been portrayed as rebels, but in fact their genius had been adapted to the needs of their time.

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