conformity ____ the law.
8. Enlightened monarchs embraced ____ the principles of the Enlightenment, especially its
emphasis upon rationality, and applied them to their territories.
9. Management monitoring of employee network usage is something that does not easily conform _____ European ideas of data privacy.
10. The scientific community has too long invested time and attention in lamenting that policy is not relevant ____ science.
11. The factors that have inhibited ____ the promotion of women and minority faculty members
in the past will presumably continue to operate.
12. Norwalk city officials continue to tinker ____ legislation involving minimum water and sewer
usage rates.
Ex. 11. Fill in the gaps with suitable words.
Privacy is also important to Americans. The notion of (1)_______ privacy may make it difficult to make friends. Because Americans (2) ______ one's privacy, they may not go much beyond
a friendly “hello.” Ironically, it is usually the foreigner who must be more assertive if a friendship is to develop.
The rugged individualism valued by most Americans (3)_______ from our frontier heritage. For
much of our country's (4)_______, there was a frontier. That experience greatly (5)_______ American attitudes. Early (6)_______ had to be self-sufficient which forced them to be inventive. Their
success gave them an optimism about the future, a (7)_______ that problems could be solved. This
positive spirit (8)________ Americans to take risks in areas where others might only dream, resulting in tremendous (9)________ in technology, health and science.
The American frontier also created our (10)________: the self-reliant, strong-willed, confident
individual who preferred action to words and always tried to treat others (11)________. Many of
these characteristics are represented by the myth of the American cowboy, and the more modern versions personified in movies by John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Sylvester Stallone.
In addition to such basic American values as individual freedom, self-reliance, equality of (12)________, hard work, (13)________ wealth, and competition, we see a trend toward conserva
tion with an emphasis on recycling and preserving the environment. Also there is a greater sensitivity to cooperation on a more global (14)________.
No matter what changes the next century brings or whether you agree with American values, the opportunity to visit the United States and to (15)________ Americans first-hand is an experi
