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

1. Those __________ ancestors doubtless found sticks helpful for pointing out a direction, tracing a diagram in the dirt or __________ up a slab of useful flint.

2. Despite __________ printed in newspapers and broadcast over the internet and on television, Americans __________ to lose millions to internet con artists.

3. Georgia 's teachers received the third largest salary hike in the country last year but still did not move up in national __________.

4. Scanners have long been neglected by the designers of the PC world ? __________ boxes that take up far too __________ space on the desktop.

5. Most easily measured ___________ gains come from increasing the capital stock and improving the efficiency with which the capital stock is used.

6. Seth Walters has ___________ more than four decades in commercial banking, ___________ from a bank messenger to president and CEO of the Merchant's Bank.

7. Prosecutors have ___________ a wealth of circumstantial evidence linking the six ___________ to the deadly bombing.

8. It was thought that if the corpse did not have ___________ care, the former pharaoh would not be able to ___________ out his new duties as king of the dead.

9. Traffic safety experts said that national driver education standards should be ___________ so teenagers everywhere receive ___________ training before hitting the road on their own.

10. Left-leaning politicians from around the world worked on a ___________ against the spread of ___________ capitalism.