Passage 6 In the eighteenth century, Japan’s feudal overlords, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves under financial stress....
Passage 7Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A.D., the Byzantine Empire staged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival, a recovery ...
Passage 8Virtually everything astronomers known about objects outside the solar system is based on the detection of photons-quanta of electromagnetic ...
Passage 9Most economists in the united States seem captivated by the spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does no...
Passage 10 Caffeine, the stimulant in coffee, has been called the most widely used psychoactive substance on Earth .” Synder, Daly and Bruns hav...
Passage 11Federal efforts to aid minority businesses began in the 1960’s when the Small Business Administration (SBA) began making federally gua...
Passage 12Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if they separated an invertebrate animal embryo into two parts at an early stage of its life, it...
Passage 13In 1896 a Georgia couple suing for damages in the accidental death of their two year old was told that since the child had made no real econ...
Passage 14Prior to 1975, union efforts to organize public-sector clerical workers, most of whom are women, were somewhat limited. The factors favoring...
Passage 15Milankovitch proposed in the early twentieth century that the ice ages were caused by variations in the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. ...