Though the subject of the museum exhibit had been an astute politician and strategist in his day, not even his most vociferous apologists could drum up interest among a modern public for a retrospective of a career so marked by _________ views on social issues.

Though the subject of the museum exhibit had been an astute politician and strategist in his day, not even his most vociferous apologists could drum up interest among a modern public for a retrospective of a career so marked by _________ views on social issues.

Just months from retirement, the disgraced executive was forced to make _________ exit from the company.

Just months from retirement, the disgraced executive was forced to make _________ exit from the company.

_________ in the scandal, the company could regain favor with customers only through mass firings of guilty

executives.

_________ in the scandal, the company could regain favor with customers only through mass firings of guilty

executives.

From the battle’s opening volleys to its bloody conclusion, the forces of destruction razed a path through the city, ultimately leaving behind an eerie stillness where there once had been streets and squares _________ with life.

From the battle’s opening volleys to its bloody conclusion, the forces of destruction razed a path through the city, ultimately leaving behind an eerie stillness where there once had been streets and squares _________ with life.

By framing the new law as a question of urgent safety rather than of privacy, the government obviated the need to pass through the standard channels of legislation, effectively _________ all formal dissent and relegating any would-be naysayer from a position of engaged activist to that of a powerless bystander.

By framing the new law as a question of urgent safety rather than of privacy, the government obviated the need to pass through the standard channels of legislation, effectively _________ all formal dissent and relegating any would-be naysayer from a position of engaged activist to that of a powerless bystander.

Exactly which bird species fell victim first to the deadly virus is the subject of ongoing controversy; what is known, however, is that it took but a slight mutation in the pathogen’s genetic constitution to render it lethal to _________ of related species.

Exactly which bird species fell victim first to the deadly virus is the subject of ongoing controversy; what is known, however, is that it took but a slight mutation in the pathogen’s genetic constitution to render it lethal to _________ of related species.