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A company announced that next year' s annual salary of each of its employees will be $$5$$ percent greater than this year' s salary, plus $$$500$$ times the number of years of service that the employee has this year. If next year' s annual salary of an employee who has $$4$$ years of service this year will be $$$38,330$$, what is the employee' s annual
salary this year?
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Which of the following is the graph of the inequality $$|x + 1| \leq 3$$ ?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage suggests that compared to Modernist novels, novels by Henry James tend to
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Let $$a$$, $$b$$, and $$c$$ be positive integers such that $$x^2 + cx + 16 = (x+a)(x+b)$$ for all values of $$x$$. What is the largest possible value of $$c$$ minus the smallest possible value of $$c$$?
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$$c\times10^k + d\times10^{(k+1)}=$$
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As a consequence of his need for (i)________ and his (ii)________ self-advertisement, Joseph Duveen' s career is better known than those of most of his fellow dealers of museum-quality material. The Wildensteins, for instance, were far more successful financially, but they were (iii)________ beyond measure.
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In the final scene of the movie, the character exhibits an almost unbelievable _________, remaining imperturbable in the face of intense and immediate physical danger.
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Though acknowledging the unstated assumptions that commentators on her paper had identified, the geologist pointed out that such assumptions were (i)________ the context of her research, and therefore their existence did not (ii)_________ her conclusions.
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When film adaptations of literary classics are lackluster it is often because they (i)________ a certain (ii)________ to the cultural prestige of literature. The good ones, by contrast, succeed through the arrogant assumption that a great novel is not a (iii)_________ artifact but rather a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker's will.
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The book is a determinedly apolitical writer's attempt to deal with an explosive subject, and some readers will think it too ________: they will miss the impassioned engagement found in the works of her peers.
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When an organism is functioning normally, excessive fat is stored in adipose tissue. Thus, the (i)________ of such tissue may be (ii)________ the fat is diverted to other organs, such as the liver and the heart, causing serious health problems.
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Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was just nineteen years old when Futurism erupted, but she later heeded that violent, belligerent art movement' s call in the (i)________ of her broad-shouldered suits, the rawness of her furs and embroidery, and her (ii)________ attitude, which her contemporaries described as "hard chic," toward any simpering or mincing in fashion.
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For any art lover who has sat through a high-stakes auction, where artworks often are applauded for their (i)________, there is something undeniably (ii)________ about encouraging more people to see (iii)________ rather than dollar signs, when they look at paintings on museum walls.
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Native American art is not a (i)________ enterprise: it reflects differences among artists' personal, community, and tribal experience. As Native American artists continue to create the art that is valid for them, however, the (ii)________ in Native American art between traditional and modern styles (primarily promulgated by non-Native American critics) has become outmoded. There is heightened recognition that placing Native American art in these two opposing categories has had a (iii)________ effect on both artists and viewers.
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Given the extraordinary ________ of its arguments, it is surprising that the central thesis of the book can be stated so simply.
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An earlier generation of writers of historical novels, less ________ than today' s writers about the need to distinguish fact from fiction, were accordingly careful to point out exactly what was invented in their works.
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Unlike news reports, theater isn' t expected to stick to the facts. Built on a sandy foundation of make-believe and (i)________, the form, by nature, traffics in (ii)________. Good documentary drama exploits its inherent paradox: creating artifice from verbatim texts, it uncovers truths by playing on the tension between what' s real and what' s (iii)________.
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Having seen her extravagant predictions of some years ago ________ by events, she is now more cautious: her current predictions are refreshingly free of hyperbole.
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A long-running philosophical debate in the field of stratigraphy—the study of sequences of sedimentary rocks—is whether the sedimentary record represents mainly (i)________ happenings (e.g., waves and tides) or their opposite, (ii)________ events (e.g., hurricanes and flash floods).
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