Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

1. Rugby is still largely an __________ sport in Georgia , but in its traditional __________ of England , France , New Zealand , Australia and South Africa it has, since turning professional in 1995, become a multi-billion-dollar industry.

2. A week-long investigation began yesterday in Florida , with __________ speculation on the cause of the crash centering on damage to the plane's right wing.

3. Started in 1993 by the Cultural Council to ___________ the city's downtown neighborhoods, the festival ___________ artists and acrobats, magicians and stilt walkers from as far away as Spain and China .

4. Mardex recently launched a line of broadband home networking products, ___________ wireless base stations and a five-port hub, ___________ targeting the home and home business.

5. Ranchers have long despised prairie dogs, believing (___________, according to some new research) that they deprive cattle of ___________.

6. Some economists are predicting that demand will catch up with productivity shortly, ___________ an enormous boom in job growth.

7. Throughout the downturn of the past few years, economists and analysts have trumpeted our historic increases in productivity as the one ___________ in an otherwise dreary economic ___________.

8. The recent arrest has ___________ concern about a government push against powerful business barons before the ___________ elections.

9. The government will also now start the legal process of lifting the monopoly ___________ by Telecon , the state carrier.

10. The Calverts were a young New England couple looking for an inexpensive way to ___________ a small vacation cottage in Massachusetts when they first began purchasing country ___________ and folk art in the 1920s.