claim: in the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the u.s. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. with that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy."
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: many banks failed under this pressure, while others were forced to merge: the  number of banks in the united states fell 35 percent between 1929 and 1933.  while the great depression affected some sectors of the economy more than  others, and thus some regions of the country more than others, all sectors and  regions ...
evidence_2: reading test answer explanations the trustworthiness of online  recommendations. choice d is incorrect because the idea that the new global  economy will have only a limited expansion is oppositional to the passage's main  points. question 12. the passage's discussion of life in the soviet union in the  1960s and 1970s.
evidence_3: dec 1, 2008 ... despite all of this, the financial implosion has continued to widen and deepen,  while sharp contractions in the “real economy” are everywhere to be seen. .... the  u.s. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its  electronic equivalent) that allows it to produce as many u.s. dollars as it ...
evidence_4: in 1841, the american society of dental surgeons, which had been founded the  year before as the first national dental society in the united states, appointed a  committee to study the amalgam problem. the committee reported that all filling  materials in which mercury was an ingredient were, "hurtful both to the teeth and  ...
evidence_5: jan 1, 1990 ... nothing has really changed yet with the american underclass; that is the thesis to  which most of this article is devoted. why then has the underclass ..... but even if  we restrict the calculation to non-latino whites, 22 percent of all white births in  1997 were to unmarried women. these numbers come at a time ...