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Both as a line of work and as a discipline, economics lost substantial status during the recession of 1984-
85. The crisis that seized the western developed countries, including US, was of a character not to be found 
in economics textbooks: rate of inflation exceeding 20% a year attached with diminishing production and 
high rates of unemployment. Up till now, peacetime price rises had been linked with high employment and 
an overactive economy, while high rates of unemployment went with decline or misery. The next 
combination was rightly called stagflation. 
10. According to the passage, the term stagflation means ........................ . 
a. the combination of high inflation and economic decline 
b. high unemployment in spite of high levels of production
c. a decrease in the rates of inflation 
d. inflation in an overactive economy 
e. high levels of peacetime inflation 
11. It is said in the text that the economic crisis of the mid-1980's ........................ . 
a. followed the same pattern as earlier economic crisis 
b. had little effect on the industry of developed countries 
c. caused people to lose faith in economics 
d. caused the economy to be overactive 
e. was characterized only by high inflation and low production 
12. The main idea stressed in the passage is ........................ . 
a. the growing unpopularity of economics as a science 
b. the relationship between unemployment and recession 
c. the industrial decline of US and some Western countries 
d. the unusual nature and the extensive effects of the economic crisis of the 1980's 
e. how to combat high inflation and unemployment 
Political crime is different from everyday crime only in the motivation of the offender. A bank robbery, a 
theft, drug smuggling, kidnapping, or murder is no more a crime for being politically motivated. In this 

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