Noun /
a position counting as draw in which a player is not I'll N check but cannot move except into check .
Verb #bring or cause to reach stalemate.
A . usually lived and worked in cities and town
The Flexible response was a policy implemented by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in order to substitute the New Look and the massive retaliation policy that Dwight Eisenhower's had introduced, which consisted on responding using a greater force in case of an attack, and such force involved nuclear weapons.
On the other hand, the flexible response policy aknowledges the Mutual assured destruction if nuclear weapons are involved, as the enemy with shoot back too. It aimed to provide a manner of responding to agression across the spectrum of war but without the employment of nuclear weapons.
B) to protect the judges' huge workload, is the correct answer.
From what I remember, children in Sparta were pushed towards military. If a child was found to be weak, then they were left for dead. In Athens, they were pushed towards academics and arts. I think that's the main difference.