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

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

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

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

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

It’s a reminder ____ 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.

For example, to make a pumpkin pie, a cook is used to have to first find a ____ 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 to use canned pumpkin from the supermarket and cut out a great deal of ____ 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 prefer the taste of beans without lard, because concepts of healthy cooking have changed, or because someone in ____ family has heart disease or high cholesterol.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Project leaders should not be ____ when disagreements emerge within the team.

In fact, they ____ expect them.

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

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

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

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

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

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