Even more crucially, they are the product of an outdated political system which has consistently sacrificed the long term to the short term and abandoned principles for ______ .

单项选择题Although the economy seemed, after a few tense months, to ______ the storm without serious long-term damage, the banks were hit hard.

单项选择题I disapprove of diets so strongly because I think it's wrong suddenly to ______ your body of certain foods.