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Political machines, or in your case, machines, are referred to as political organizations in which a boss runs the politics of an area. Precinct is a term used to organize areas of a city, lobbyist are people advocating with the intention to induce change, and legislature is the group of people who pass laws and ordinances in a city. Therefore, the only logical answer would be...
C. Machine
Do you mean Boaz? and the story from the bible? If so It is because he loves ruth.
It was a oil-exporting nation and it lost too much of an important resource, thus crippling the economy.
Extermination also known as magnitudium
Depends who and what he did. We need more details to answer this
