Vocabulary

There _______________________now three relatively equal contenders –

Japan, the European Community with the most powerful country,

Germany, and the United States. Though all of them

__________ at about the same economic level, each country

now __________ to develop exactly the same industries.

They __________ that their citizens __________ the

highest standards of living in the 21st century. So these countries

__________ to compete with each other.

The competition _____________around the following questions:

-Who __________________the best products?

-Who __________________the standards of living most rapidly?

-Who __________________the best-educated and best-skilled

workforce in the world?

—Who __________ the world's leader in investment

plant and equipment, research and development, infrastructure?

— Whose institutions — government, education, business

______ world leaders in efficiency?

Together, America, Japan, and Germany _________

enough to be the locomotive to pull the rest of the world into prosperity. If they __________together, they that prosperity.

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