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Economist Reading Comprehension Challenge #5

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09 Nov 2020, 07:08

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28 Mar 2025, 12:00

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One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the

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05 Nov 2018, 09:44

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18 Mar 2025, 16:17

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The Romans, having conquered almost the whole of Britain in the first

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Sajjad1994

18 Apr 2023, 07:30

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14 Mar 2025, 23:05

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In 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing

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23 Mar 2023, 20:30

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05 Mar 2025, 05:25

John Finnis developed his theory of natural law based on the structure

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10 May 2023, 02:09

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02 Mar 2025, 15:14

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Jeffrey C. Goldfarb suggests public-spirited dialog need not happen af

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Sajjad1994

24 May 2023, 07:30

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26 Feb 2025, 05:30

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In 1991, the issue of feminism resurfaced in the mainstream media on a

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LordStark

16 Nov 2021, 10:17

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13 Feb 2025, 00:45

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In the early 1950's, historians who studied preindustrial Europe (whic

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Carcass

10 Mar 2021, 01:42

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11 Jan 2025, 06:18

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Once a rarely used subset of medical treatments, protein therapeutics

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Sajjad1994

27 Apr 2020, 08:54

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10 Jan 2025, 20:07

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Two trends emerge from the demographic data gathered throughout the

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gmatt1476

02 Mar 2023, 08:00

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26 Dec 2024, 04:31

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Darwin's conception of early prehistoric humans as confident, clever

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Sajjad1994

04 Apr 2023, 07:00

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15 Dec 2024, 08:09

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Law enforcement agencies can effectively nullify particular laws, or p

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Sajjad1994

30 Aug 2022, 07:30

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15 Dec 2024, 03:00

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Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds, tend to be costly.

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Sajjad1994

06 Jul 2022, 22:33

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by: Carcass

02 Dec 2024, 11:57

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Cromwell, as the military leader of the Commonwealth Boers, is, at

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dcummins

03 Aug 2020, 21:30

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01 Dec 2024, 07:30

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Without entering now into the why, let me observe that the printer may

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Gmatsaiyan

21 Nov 2021, 08:56

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27 Nov 2024, 08:19

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Most scholars of Mexican American history mark César Chávezs unionizi

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Sajjad1994

14 Aug 2022, 21:00

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by: keets02

26 Nov 2024, 14:02

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There is a new cell-phone ring tone that can't be heard by most people

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shridhar786

16 Oct 2019, 00:08

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by: VasundharaS

19 Nov 2024, 17:49

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Some meteorologists have insisted that the severity of the drought in

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gmatt1476

23 Apr 2026, 10:57

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15 Nov 2024, 04:49

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Human relations have commanded peoples attention from early times.

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gmatt1476

08 Apr 2021, 20:00

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05 Nov 2024, 07:03

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The story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has its foundation in Art

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Sajjad1994

18 May 2023, 20:00

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02 Nov 2024, 16:42

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Before 1965 many scientists pictured the circulation of the ocean’s wa

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pathy

12 Jun 2020, 01:55

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02 Nov 2024, 05:06

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The Agency for Crude Oil estimates that China’s imports of crude will

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Sajjad1994

20 Feb 2022, 23:00

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by: rjmohan72

30 Oct 2024, 19:23

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In prehistoric times brachiopods were one of the most abundant and div

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Evo23

10 Mar 2021, 02:01

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by: Akshaynandurkar

20 Sep 2024, 09:29

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The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (FSMA) brought dramat

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globaldesi

04 May 2021, 22:04

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15 Sep 2024, 23:26

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The magnetic field of Jupiter is approximately twenty to thirty times

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Sajjad1994

14 Jun 2022, 21:00

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by: glagad

25 Aug 2024, 20:41

The uniqueness of the Japanese character is the result of two seeming

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jaiswalamrita

15 Jul 2025, 12:30

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18 Aug 2024, 16:17

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Complex societies flourished on the central plateau of southern Africa

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Crowford99

01 Sep 2022, 08:51

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16 Aug 2024, 15:23

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Comparing designs in music with visual designs raises interesting ques

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gmatt1476

04 May 2021, 20:00

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25 Jul 2024, 11:30

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The six-year period between 1914 and 1919 was an era of rapid growth

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Sajjad1994

29 Jan 2021, 07:30

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20 Jul 2024, 14:14

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Murthykvln94

13 Jun 2019, 09:01

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12 Jun 2024, 00:22

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Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the most famous African American

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Sajjad1994

06 Nov 2019, 03:45

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by: Abhishek0451

05 Jun 2024, 23:42

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Insect behavior generally appears to be explicable in terms of unconsc

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figjam786

05 Jul 2022, 19:59

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by: Anshika.g

23 May 2024, 10:15

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Is the rightness of an action determined by its consequences

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omkartadsare

25 Nov 2019, 10:32

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by: Raman109

26 Apr 2024, 05:55

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Supernovas in the Milky Way are the likeliest source for most of the

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Sajjad1994

13 Jul 2022, 07:30

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19 Apr 2024, 22:55

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When women are persecuted on account of their gender, they are likely

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Sajjad1994

27 May 2021, 21:00

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by: playthegame

11 Mar 2024, 08:59

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By the year 2030, the Earth’s population is expected to increase to 10

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Sajjad1994

23 Dec 2020, 05:19

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07 Mar 2024, 06:14

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The idea of medical nanotechnology often conjures up the potentially t

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Carcass

19 Jan 2022, 07:15

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23 Feb 2024, 07:05

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The great white shark is considered to be an apex predator,

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guerrero25

15 Jul 2025, 12:59

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21 Feb 2024, 05:01

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It has been commonly accepted for some time now that certain scenes in

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Sajjad1994

14 Jul 2023, 07:30

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19 Feb 2024, 23:07

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It seems beyond doubt that in the aboriginal society the husband exerc

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Sajjad1994

07 Jun 2023, 07:30

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2,994

by: parthwagh

17 Feb 2024, 22:35

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The new millennium is poised to intensify competition as never before.

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Sajjad1994

03 Feb 2022, 06:30

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14 Feb 2024, 12:56

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Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert

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Sajjad1994

27 Jul 2022, 07:30

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12 Feb 2024, 11:53

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NightsKing

06 Oct 2019, 22:59

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09 Feb 2024, 00:27

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The international software market represents a significant business op

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Sajjad1994

08 Oct 2019, 21:33

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15 Dec 2023, 23:36

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The two essays in which Virginia Woolf pursues womens role in art and

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Sajjad1994

05 Jul 2023, 20:00

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16 Nov 2023, 13:04

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Modern containerization was born with the concept of inter modalism,

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Sajjad1994

01 Nov 2020, 02:22

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by: kushalrungta

03 Nov 2023, 06:50

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The Earths magnetic field is generated as the molten iron of the Eart

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gmatt1476

14 Apr 2021, 20:00

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by: Sajjad1994

12 Oct 2023, 12:59

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According to the United Nations, the total fertility rate - the number

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Sajjad1994

17 Dec 2021, 06:30

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08 Sep 2023, 06:05

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Often taking a prominent position over a whiteboard or across a wall,

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Sajjad1994

23 Apr 2023, 20:00

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21 Aug 2023, 09:29

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The cyclic rise and fall in population size that has been observed in

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Sajjad1994

09 Dec 2021, 23:00

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16 Aug 2023, 12:10