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In the context where it occurs, the mention of "outright warfare" primarily serves to
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Which of the following can be inferred from the passage regarding European merchants who engaged in long-distance trading in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
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Sea turtles _____________ sponges on Caribbean reefs; however, the percentage of sponge reef cover is climbing due to human predation of turtles.
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While the retired policy maker's latest book will not convince his most strident critics, less (i)_______ readers will find his advice to be (ii)_______.
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Experience suggests that (i)______and market (ii)_______are by no means (iii)_______for corporations: executives at well-performing companies possess a keen business sense, but also tend to have oversized personalities.
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Ultimately, the young idealists (i)_______the society they so fervently desired to reform: in their frustration, they reacted to the immediate situation by removing themselves from the postwar social and political arena, where the future of their country was being decided. In doing so, they (ii)_______the salutary effects their rebellion should have (iii)______.
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George Eliot's biographer can be highly inventive, but, at the same time, somewhat(i)_______ in her approach to Eliot. She will hoist an alluring psychological flag concerning Eliot and then scrupulously take it down again, because the evidence will not serve to(ii)_______ it. But she takes it down only after it has taken an entirely (iii)_______flutter in the breeze.
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Precipitate interest in Jennifer Francis`s theory that anomalously rapid warming of the Arctic disrupts weather patterns in temperate latitudes has (i)_______the normal life cycle of a scientific controversy. Usually data are compiled, hypothesis is tested, and conclusions might then become news if deemed solid. Because Francis's idea links climate change to severe weather, it resonated immediately with the media and the pubic, and Francis has been forced to (ii)________before the scientific process has been (iii)_______.
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While other authors surely_______American novelist Toni Morrison's literary style, there really was no precedent for the sorts of books she conceived.
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In the ancient world, preferences concerning perfumery were_________: the Roman author Pliny noted that the popular iris perfume of Corinth was eventually supplanted by a succession of other fragrances.
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Dogs' intake of olfactory information is less_______than that of humans because dogs exhale through the side slits of their nostrils, keeping a continuous flow of inhaled air in their snouts for smelling.
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Whereas ground-based interferometers detect astrophysical events briefly and infrequently, space-based ones should hear a ________of signals as soon as they turn on, including a constant chorus from binary white dwarfs in our galaxy.
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Over the period shown, which first-class postal rate was in effect for the longest period of time?
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The ratio of the first-class postal rate in effect in June 1989 to the first-class postal rate in effect in June 1979 is
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The greatest percent increase in the first-class postal rate over the previous rate listed occurred in
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What is the value of ($$2^{236}$$)($$4^{-120}$$)?
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According to the passage, solar-energy systems located on Earth must store energy for which of the following reasons?
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Of the following, which best represents the graph of the function $$y=(x^{2}-x)(x-2)$$ $$?$$
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The histogram shows the frequency distribution of caffeine amounts, rounded to the nearest milligram, for 20 brands of coffee, where each interval shown includes its left endpoint and excludes its right endpoint. Based on the histogram, which of the following could be the respective values of the average (arithmetic mean) and the median of the caffeine amounts for the 20 brands?
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Research indicates that the habitat ________ commonly observed for meadow voles and prairie voles living in a single ecosystem results primarily from species differences in habitat tolerance, with interspecific competition playing a lesser role.
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