For all the fretting about outsourcing and trade deficits in the United States, MTV offers a highly-end caseAB Cstudy in how to export what seems, at first glance, to be a uniquely American brand. D

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（ ）a matter of disagreeing with the theory of independence（ ）rejecting its implications： that the romances may be taken in any or no particular order that they have no cumulative effect, and that they are as separate as the works of a modern novelist.

By the end of the nineteenth century, cities were reimbursing private hospitals for their care of（ ）patients and the public hospitals remained dependent on the tax dollars.

The protest went ahead despite government assurances that they would press for （ ）with the neighboring country in the issuing of visas.

The abacus is the counting frame that was the most widely used device for doing arithmetic in ancient times and whose use （ ）into modern times in the Orient.

Babbage was a prolific inventor, whose inventions include the ophthalmoscope for examining the retina of the eye, the skeleton key, the locomotive "cow catcher", and the speedometer.