In response to the demographic decline in the 1970s and 1980s, Europe tried to regain laborers through ______________.
A. extensive training programs for the unemployed
B. offering opportunities for work but not citizenship to guest workers
C. extending the age of retirement to seventy-five
D. decreasing taxes to attract more émigrés
E. active recruitment at universities in Third World nations
Answer: B
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a. women were entitled to have greater protection in the workplace than men. b. the Fourteenth Amendment does not guarantee the right to vote for women. c. businesses do not have to provide maternity leave for their female employees. d. women are entitled to half of a family's assets following a divorce.
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a. scoffed at the use of mathematics to save China. b. refused to accept those foreign principles that might undercut the influence of the scholarly elite. c. based their training on a long traditional body of knowledge. d. rebuilt the ruined summer palace. e. translated foreign scientific texts into Chinese.
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A. significant B. mediating C. null D. negative