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Vision is our dominant sense, and you want to look both ways before crossing the street ― it’s the first thing parents drill into their ____

____ that doesn’t mean our sense of hearing isn’t a big deal.

I don’t have ____ mention the worn-out example of cavemen and hidden saber-toothed tigers.

There’s something that can sneak up ____ kill you today: a silent electric car.

These pose an unanticipated but serious threat to pedestrians and bicyclists, who depend on engine noise to detect and orient to cars ― so much ____ that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration now requires slow-moving electric vehicles to generate a warning noise.

It’s a ____ that even for us in a modern city, having both cues can mean the difference between life and death.

Sometimes traditions may change or appear to ____ because of convenience or changes in taste.

____ example, to make a pumpkin pie, a cook is used to have to first find a pumpkin of suitable size, cut it, peel it, cook it, and mash it, all before combining it with other ingredients and pouring the mixture into a crust.

Now, cooks may choose ____ use canned pumpkin from the supermarket and cut out a great deal of labor and time.

Another changing food tradition is that ____ families no longer make refried beans by cooking them in lard and choose instead to use vegetable shortening.

Perhaps this change came about because the family has come to ____ the taste of beans without lard, because concepts of healthy cooking have changed, or because someone in the family has heart disease or high cholesterol.

Forecasters who predict resource depletion ____ ignore or underestimate the power of markets.

For example, some forecasters use a ____ reserve index to estimate how long a resource would last.

The current reserve index divides the current known reserve of a resource by the amount currently used ____ period.

So, if we know of 445 billion barrels of oil, and we are currently using 15 billion ____ per year, the index indicates that we will run out of oil in about 30 years.

Some ____ like the Limits to Growth, further assume that demand will increase each year, thus depleting resources even faster.

But what they fail to see is that if markets are allowed to do their usual duty, that is, prices rise as depletion occurs, ____ will last much longer.

Project leaders should ____ be surprised when disagreements emerge within the team.

In fact, they should expect ____

If they remain hidden, the leader may even want to seek ____ out for at least two reasons.

First, ____ views can bring with them good ideas about the project and how it might be run.

Although snap decisions about ____ changes should be avoided, leaders should be open to new and better ways to run the project.

Second, when conflicting viewpoints are found, they ____ more easily resolved earlier rather than later in the project.

Although team members may disagree about one or another aspect of the project, most simply want their ideas ____ and resolved.

The team tends to look to the ____ leader to play the lead role in resolving differences, and members will generally defer to the leader if they believe their views have been given due consideration.