The age of fossil fuels is over, and the carmakers will die if they don't adapt.
The history of British industry is littered with companies who said well we won't adapt to change yet.
Li didn't adapt well to the demands placed on her as the first person from China to win a major singles title: She said she wasted "half a year" just trying to find her game again.
But as the economics of the NFL changed, Davis didn't adapt--and he failed to cash in on the construction boom he created: The Raiders are one of only six teams that haven't built a new stadium since 1982 (the Giants and the Jets have a new one under way).
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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They are a little slower than what I'm used to and I just didn't adjust or adapt to them.
Though HP is a world leader in desktop color printing, it couldn't wait to adapt its technology to the commercial marketplace.
But we can't expect to adapt to this changed world unless we engage with it now, and understand it from the inside as well as observing it from our editorial offices.
Except that a pay-on-death form usually can't be customized to adapt to changing family circumstances, such as the death of a child.
It isn't a straightforward matter to adapt the Internet to the world of direct sales.
But he suggests that the United States won't be able to adequately adapt and respond to the deteriorating situation in Iraq until a change in leadership takes place.
And small businesses have to adapt, and sometimes the owner doesn't take a salary just to keep folks on the payroll.
But the company didn't learn from its mistake and adapt its strategy.
The private-equity industry won't leave America en masse and will adapt its compensation structure to keep talent.
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But it isn't just the entrepreneurs who need to adapt, says Ali Dagli, a director at the technology investment bank GP Bullhound.
And for decades, too many of our institutions -- from Washington to Wall Street -- failed to adapt, or they adapted in ways that didn't work for ordinary folk -- for middle-class families, for those aspiring to get into the middle class.
Not that this means some horrible, Ford-like sequel lies ahead wherein management refuses to adapt to a market where competitors have caught up and in some ways surpassed the Model T.
But he says crops must be replanted to adapt to equipment, at a cost of thousands of dollars an acre, and farmers don't want to uproot productive trees.
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