The worldwide recession of 2008–2009 burst the speculative bubble in Ireland that had financed __________.

A) agricultural expansion
B) public welfare services
C) real estate development
D) the coal and oil industries


C) real estate development

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A. Colin MacLeod. B. Oswald Avery. C. Gregor Mendel. D. Maclyn McCarty. E. Francis Crick.

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a. further segregation in professional sports. b. a growth of power for organized labor. c. a declining fear in the threat of Communism. d. a significant increase in the number of babies being born.

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