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The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time

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The origins of the English language can be traced back to the Saxon

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In the 1980s there was a proliferation of poetry collections, short st

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In 1977, an international tobacco industry trade group, including repr

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Fractal geometry is a mathematical theory devoted to the study of

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JIT stands for Just-In-Time. More than a standardized methodology or

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Economists coined the term vertical specialization in 2001 to describe

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Joy Kogawa’s Obasan is an account of a Japanese-Canadian family’s expe

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Economists have long defined prosperity in terms of monetary value, ga

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One of the first attempts to peer into the living human brain was carr

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A special mucous coating that serves as a chemical camouflage Allows c

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Comparing designs in music with visual designs raises interesting ques

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Eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith introduced the invisible hand

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As the proportion of Australian workers who are self-employed has boom

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According to the generally accepted theory of plate tectonics, the ear

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Scientific advances in the latter half of the twentieth century have a

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Monogamy is not natural — hardly any species practice it, except for b

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A famous series of studies, known as the Hawthorne Studies, was the

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To meet the specific needs of a small, localized program like that of

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When asteroids collide, some collisions cause an asteroid to spin fast

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Many economists have held that competition among multiple domestic riv

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The intense preparation required for the law school admission test

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Taking the explication of experience as its object as well as its meth

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After the chaos following the 2000 U.S. presidential election, many

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Progress became a theme in European thought in about 1750. The thinker

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Biotechnology can be broadly defined as using living organisms or the

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Different approaches to the issue of cultural expression through the

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In the 1860s, the German philologist Lazarus Geiger proposed that the

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Once the largest creditor nation, the United States is now the worlds

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A number of natural disasters in recent years such as earthquakes, ma

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Although the rights of native peoples of Canada have yet to be compreh

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There are three necessary prerequisites for effective self-regulation

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In 1965 a prestigious university in South Africa started the first-eve

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Dowsing is the practice of detecting resources or objects beneath the

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Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical

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Scientists have long assumed that Antarctic ice sheets are essentially

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Researchers have been studying the skeletal remains of a mastodon

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Desert plant populations have evolved sophisticated physiological beha

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Structural unemployment—the unemployment that remains even at the peak

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El Nino-Southern Oscillation is a climate pattern that occurs

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To account for the conformation of the Alps, two hypotheses have been

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In the late nineteenth century, the highly esteemed Italian botanist

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As Americans suffered through the first two years of the Great Depress

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In 1860 in the United States, of all employees, only state judges in s

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Comparable worth, as a standard applied to eliminate inequities in pay

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Among the myths taken as fact by the environmental managers of most

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In the early 1980s, East Coast fishermen dangerously overfished their

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Frailty of understanding is in itself no proper target for scorn and

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