The correct answer is A) The space shuttle program has come to an end.
The author thinks that the time may now be right to focus on ocean research because the space shuttle program has come to an end.
The main argument for the author to support ocean exploration is that he considered that the space shuttle program of NASA had already ended in 2011. Too much money -billions of dollars- had been invested in the space program, and now it was time to enter the unknown territories of the oceans.
The author is probably right. We do not much about oceans and what could be under the sea. That is a real mystery. We have explored enough about the space, according to our possibilities and limitations, but practically the ocean is unknown. So ocean exploration would be a real challenge.
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Americans with Disability Act: This act states that employees must not be discriminated on the basis of their physical appearances or any disabilities.The government gave rise to this law so that people with disabilities must not be discriminated in terms of making use of the facilities such as public forums, transportation and etc.
It is to make sure that people with disabilities receive equal opportunities and resources. It also gives civil rights to people regardless of their caste, color or creed.
The Secretary General of NATO has the chief civil service of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, represented by an international diplomat. He is responsable for several important tasks, such as: chairing meetings with committees and spokesperson of NATO, but military, strategy and political decisions are responsabilty of member states.
The stipulative definitions are those that express the meaning of the words through definitions agreed <em>by a group and a context</em>, in that sense it is different from the lexical definition because the latter is the meaning that is had for the name in a significant group as a society .
Stipulative definitions are often used to give precision to a new concept or an abstract idea, or to resignify an existing term.
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B. Stipulative definitions often begin as slang among groups, as these definitions are contextual.