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Japanese law draws a distinction between currency imitation and actual counterfeiting: only the latter involved an explicit intent to _______________ the public.
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Japanese consumers -no matter what a brief stroll in Tokyo`s Ginza shopping district may suggest-are saving more and spending less. In March, for instance, sales at department stores fell by 21 percent compared with the previous year. (i)____________, in the previous March shoppers had been out in force to (ii)____________ the implementation of a new consumption tax. But even when that is (iii)____________, households are still spending less than they did a year ago.
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Most tree-dwelling lizards drop to the ground when threatened. But Sphenomorpus sabanus uses (i)____________, avoiding predation by hanging upside down and clinging to a branch with its hind claws so as to resemble a twig. Researchers suggest that the advantages of S. sabanus`s strategy is its (ii)____________. When predatory birds expect their prey to fall to the ground, the argument runs, (iii)____________ a lizard still hanging from a branch.
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Since beavers rely on auditory signals such as the tail slap and whining and hissing, we can infer that their hearing is _____________, although we don`t know the exact sensitivity and performance of their acoustical sense.
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Science is a seemingly inexhaustible source of _____________, yet paradoxically scientists have been portrayed in recent decades as rather conservative—resisting innovation in their discipline sometimes to the point of dogmatism.
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Some critics claim that because medical journals receive (i) _____________ selection of findings from clinical trials—mainly those trials that show (ii) _____________ results for the drugs being tested—readers of those journals believe that some medications are more (iii) _____________ than they really are, even when those medications are little more than placebos.
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Ultimately, according to Zuger, all medical advice is _________ : it is educated guesswork, perhaps, but guesswork all the same.
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It is ironic that the scientist's work was criticized recently for its _________ research methodology, since other researchers have argued for years that this same methodology was based absolutely on impeccable logic.
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The psychologists' new findings present the discipline with a (i) _____________: although her results pose a problem for the standard theory, the alternative theories she proposes are (ii)______________.
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The genius of the scientific method is that it (i) _____________ the dictum of Aristotle that the goal of science is knowledge of the ultimate cause of things. True science, we now know, advances human knowledge by (ii) _____________ ultimate cause and focusing instead on the testing of empirical hypotheses.
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To write convincing fiction about the tedium of ordinary life may be one of the hardest challenges facing a novelist, who must find a way to engage the reader despite a focus on _____________ events.
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The rebellion was _____________ one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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The passage suggests which of the following about art collectors in antiquity?
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Let $$n$$ be a nonnegative integer such that when $$6n$$ is divided by $$75$$, the remainder is $$30$$. Which of the following is a list of all possible remainders when $$7n$$ is divided by $$75$$?
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The sum of three different positive integers is 11.
Which two of the following statements together provide sufficient information to determine the three integers?
Indicate two such statements.
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If $$x \geq 0$$, $$y \geq 0$$, and $$x^{2}$$+$$y^{2}$$=$$1$$, which of the following statements must be true?
Indicate all such statements.
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The lengths of the sides of triangle $$RST$$ are $$3$$, $$4$$, and $$y$$. Which of the following inequalities specifies those values of $$y$$ for which each angle measure of triangle $$RST$$ is less than $$90°$$?
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