The meaning of the phrase cost-effective in the first paragraph of this passage is C. getting the most for the money you spend.
If you insulate and seal air leaks in your home on time, you won't have to think about that in the future. Thus, if you pay a lot of money now, you will save a lot more in the future than if you didn't insulate, and then had to fix stuff around the house all the time, which would waste so much of your money.
        
             
        
        
        
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To the slaves, America's claims of freedom and liberty were a “sham and hypocrisy,” Douglass stated. After reading the speech aloud, event participants said that Douglass' speech remained equally important today, pointing to our society's habit of celebrating its past without attending to the hypocrisy in the present.
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The correct answer is B. He claims it will stop poorer countries from learning to better manage their own resources.
He believes that they would not learn how to change their ways and eventually the problem would become even bigger because they would overpopulate.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
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50 million -plus students enrolled in countries public k-12  school this fall are more racially diverse than ever
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