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8.  In a straight piece-rate system, wages are determined by _____.  

3. The _____ occurs when a low rating on one characteristic leads to an overall low rating.

10. . Medicare is the health insurance program that was implemented by the government in 1965 to provide medical care primarily for _____.  

 Answer the question below with a paragraph of at least eight complete sentences. Explain the meaning of the film title Harvest of Empire. 

“The _________________ [the second institution] loaned funds to developing countries at low interest rates.”

 Answer the question below with a paragraph of at least eight complete sentences. How did Las Casas describe the encounters between the Spanish and the native populations of the Americas? Please give specific examples.

“The [third and] final institution […] was the ________________, which began life as a trade agreement between twenty-three nations.”

“[The term ‘______________________’] is […] strange for several reasons, one of which is that it implies that these regions have tried in the past to become nation-states and were not able to do so because of some internal problem. In reality, many of these regions never had a coherent identity and were forged by European powers on grounds that had no basis in social reality.”

“In 1648 the ________________________ ended the Thirty Years War in the region that would become Germany. The key idea [of the treaty] was that each ‘prince’ had the right to decide the public religion of his own people, while people who practiced other Christian beliefs could still practice their religion in private.”

“In 1944 the United States convened a meeting in ___________________, which created three key institutions. ”