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Drug companies rarely pursue new pharmacotherapies for rare diseases because of the high failure rates and the cost of research, which make the companies'chances of recovering their investments_____________.
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Delilo' s writing seems strangely attenuated in the pages, stripped of its usual pop and fizz, its tactile sense of detail, and as a result the novel has_____________feel.
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In the late nineteenth century, many English lace-making towns and villages sold postcards that showed lace makers at work. The postcard images, designed to promote lace by imbuing the product with romantic nostalgia, were frequently (i)
_____________: the same women appear in numerous pictures, even those that ostensibly (ii)_____________.
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The failure of scholarly efforts to adequately characterize the fairy tale as a genre is (i)_____________ because the genre is so(ii)_____________: despite its currency and apparent simplicity, the term "fairy tale”(iii)_____________.
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At one time television was_____________: an episode aired and, if you missed it, you might, at best, have one more chance to see it during a summer rerun.
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Many in the software industry cling to an obstinate belief that the industry can weather any economic storm, but their_____________has been visibly shaken by a looming recession and aggressive consolidation in the high-tech industry.
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Interest in the recovery of lost works by Brazilian women writers is growing as scholars increasingly recognize writing by Brazilian women as inherently worth study, not as_____________ writing by Brazilian men.
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Historically, it has been unusual for scientific terms, once coined, to enter common usage with much_____________: "scientist" and "dinosaur"(coined in 1833 and 1842,respectively), for instance, were rarely used before the late nineteenth century.
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The (i)_____________of a rain forest is (ii)_____________. The extinction of a pollinator or seed disperse may cause the death of a plant species and with it many other species that depend on it.
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The so-called English heritage film, often adapted from well-known literary works and characterized by lavish period detail, has been derided for its artful packaging of a fantasized and sentimental version of a lost Englishness. Even when such films (i)_____________the national past, the (ii)_____________ of their commentaries is (iii)_____________by the nostalgia-inducing effect of their spectacle.
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In a time when so much new concert music failed to speak to listeners, the composer's symphonies expressed with_____________wit and scorching emotional power the tragic history he lived through.
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In studying contemporary writing about love, critic Susan Ostrov Weisser notes a striking_____________: love is often treated skepticallyin “serious" literature, while mass-produced romance novels offer up dreamy idealization.
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Natasha Kholgade Banerjee notes that photo-editing applications have allowed everyday users to (i)_____________ the (ii)_____________ of a camera by providing the means to change image colors, move pixels around, and combine natural photographs with artificial elements.
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When Jourdain(i)_____________ that the "phonograph has been as disastrous to the development of the musical imagination as television has been to the literary imagination," he appears grumpy rather than reflective. (ii)_____________ the fact that there are arguably as many fine authors and poets now as ever, television notwithstanding, there is not a shred of evidence that musical recordings have had any(iii)_____________ effect on music in any way.
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People do not view numbers_____________: one's response to the number 9, for example, is conditioned by a mixture of both cultural and psychological factors.
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Even though some governments are now expressing alarm over their nations'_____________ birth rates, the planetary threat of human overpopulation has not ceased to concern many scientists and environmentalists.
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Egler's prediction in 1947 that the introduction of mangrove trees to the Hawaiian lslands would cause sweeping ecological change was_____________: extensive mangrove forests have come to displace many preexisting plant communities.
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Whereas classic compromises express an underlying and continuing (i)_____________of values, so that the disagreements among the parties are embodied in the compromise itself, consensual compromises are based on an underiying (ii)_____________ of values.
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Climate science journals are often too hermetic for even the most (i)_____________ layperson. The gravity of the issues discussed requires that we (ii)_____________ such (iii)_____________: we need publications that engage the broader public in discussions of how we interact with the natural world.
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Like the Homeric bards, early blues musicians added or removed song parts depending on whether those elements appealed to their (i)_____________. Since such improvisatory revision directly privileged audience reaction over plot coherence in governing song (ii)_____________, the sense of narrative in the lyrics of much early blues music can seem confusing.
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