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Some other questions you may be interested in.

• A. I am much more intolerant of a human being’s shortcomings than I am of an animal’s, but in this respect I have been lucky, for most of the people I have come across have been charming.
  B. Then you come across the unpleasant human animal—the District Officer who drawled, “We chaps are here to help you chaps,’ and then proceeded to be as obstructive as possible.
  C. In these cases of course, the fact that you are an animal collector helps; people always seem delighted to meet someone with such an unusual occupation and go out of their way to assist you.
  D. Fortunately, these types are rare, and the pleasant ones I have met more than compensated for them—but even so, I think I will stick to animals.
  E. When you travel round the world collecting animals you also, of necessity, collect human beings.
• A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages; this ‘war’ has a dubious legality.
  B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as war?
  C. The phrase ‘war against terror’, which has passed into the common lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
  D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has codified the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
  E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity—either State or non-State.
• A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout put the keys most likely to be hit in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.
  B. A different layout, which had been patented by August Dvorak in 1936, was shown to be much faster.
  C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873) aimed to solve a mechanical problem of early typewriters.
  D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then PCs) the anti-jamming rationale for QWERTY has been defunct for years.
  E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.
• A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
  B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper; customers may buy that brand elsewhere.
  C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be fewer prices sensitive since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
  D. So, the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price sensitive.
  E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
  F. Then, stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private-label diapers.
• A.Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
  B.It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to offer unique value.
  C.It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough trade-offs in choosing what not to do.
  D.Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
  E.A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval, while constantly improving and extending its distinctive positioning.
  F.When a company’s activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system?
• A.Humour gives you the opportunity to exaggerate a point which is presumably why it is best remembered.
  B.Using humour can be not just the most arduous route but the joke may fail to cause a flutter.
  C.But a warming here: humour has to be funny.
  D.Everyone with a successful humour advertisement agress that they are very careful about the script.
• A.Guruji had been undergoing a terrific strain for over five decades in devoting his body, mind, heart, and soul to the causes of service to humanity and the spread of spiritual enlightenment.
  B.The excessive strain of long tour abroad came as a severe low to his health, but he still refused to rest, continuing his studies, talks and writings with unabated vigour and enthusiasm.
  C.This had already undermined his health but he was never one to reserve any time or attention to his own well being.
  D.In fact it required great vigilance to prevent him from giving advice and blessings to his devotees and disciples even when he could hardly speak on account of the strain.
• A. A totally personal agenda will never bring about this level of fulfillment because that has to result from integration – and not be a substitute for it.
  B.One's consciousness then becomes centred in the identity of the soul.
  C.Realising ourselves and our potential entails becoming a pure reflection and manifestation of the inner self.
  D.Since the soul lives by different laws and values, there is a fundamental conflict in human nature that must be resolved if integration and fulfilment is to be complete.
• A.Time will be called out not just by bartenders but also by gambling machines in the Australian state of Victoria.
  B.TS Eliot would have got a poem out of this.
  C.Natural lighting has also been made mandatory in some casmos so that fully addicted punters do not mistake the fluorescent lighting for some kind Alladin's lamp that can summon a Djinn to take care of home and hearth.
  D.From July 4, clocks will be fitted to 27,500 gambling machines down under to remind punters that it's time to return home and tend to their familiar obligations.
• A.Naturally, the committee assumes that anybody interested in national heritage is fluent in Latin.
  B.So avers the National Heritage committee's new report, recalling the inscription in memory of Sir Christopher Wren.
  C.But for those readers whose classics are a bit rusty, it translates as: 'If you seek a monument to him, look about you'
  D.'Si momentum requires, circumstance'..