Perhaps my proudest achievement ______ has been setting up the first shift workers' day nursery in the UK, providing care for the children of health service staff.

单项选择题Even more crucially, they are the product of an outdated political system which has consistently sacrificed the long term to the short term and abandoned principles for ______ .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