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According to those in favour of privatization of Social [#permalink] New post   15 Sep 2020, 09:58
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According to those in favour of privatization of Social Security in the US, the current system is impossible to (i) _______. Decades ago, there were many more workers for every recipient but now the situation has (ii) _______. Thus, sooner or later, the fund will not be able to meet its obligations, because there will be more payments going out, than income coming in. Privatizing the system for the future recipients, while gradually (iii) ______ the system for current and near-term recipients, is probably the best way to keep the system viable.


Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
A. question D. reversed G. working out
B. weaken E. corrected H. phasing out
C. sustain F. aggravated I. releasing


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Re: According to those in favour of privatization of Social [#permalink] New post   06 Oct 2020, 21:36
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The people in favour of privitization would definitely have antipathy towards the current method So choose choose the word that implies a negative sentence. Impossible to sustain sounds good.For the second blank notice there is a time contrast "but now" so the situation has changed.Reveersed is a closest word that can be matched.Privitization as mentioned by people who espouse it say that It will gradually reduce the already existing system .So phasing out is the option.
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Re: According to those in favour of privatization of Social [#permalink] New post   18 May 2021, 20:19
Can someone plz explain the difference between phasing out and releasing?
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Re: According to those in favour of privatization of Social [#permalink] New post   19 May 2021, 00:45
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Privatizing the system for the future recipients, while gradually (iii) ______ the system for current and near-term recipients, is probably the best way to keep the system viable.

As per the meaning is exactly the contrary.

You do need a new system. As such, you have to eliminate or phase out the old one.


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Re: According to those in favour of privatization of Social [#permalink] New post   31 May 2021, 01:36
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Privatizing the system for the future recipients, while gradually (iii) ______ the system for current and near-term recipients, is probably the best way to keep the system viable.

As per the meaning is exactly the contrary.

You do need a new system. As such, you have to eliminate or phase out the old one.


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For blank 2, Why are we not choosing AGGRAVATED ?
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Re: According to those in favour of privatization of Social [#permalink] New post   31 May 2021, 02:06
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Carcass wrote:
Privatizing the system for the future recipients, while gradually (iii) ______ the system for current and near-term recipients, is probably the best way to keep the system viable.

As per the meaning is exactly the contrary.

You do need a new system. As such, you have to eliminate or phase out the old one.


Hope now is more clear



For blank 2, Why are we not choosing AGGRAVATED ?


Because does not have any sense.

We do have a shift in the argument: BEFORE the fund did meet the expectations, NOW no more. So the situation is contrary or reversed.

If was aggravated the line of reasoning was more or less in that manner: the fund was not able to meet the expectations of 10% of the subscribers. However, now the quote arose up to 75%

We , here, have a shift from good to worse. Aggravated would be from so so to worse.

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