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From the Ted Talk by Steven Levitt: Surprising stats about child carseats

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And so, he went forth to the people and he said, "I've made this wenudrfol finding: it looks as if we could just use the cheap and simple solution, and by doing so we could save ourselves 300 miillon dollars a year, and we could spend that on our children in other ways." And the parents were very unhappy, and they said, "This is a terrible thing, because how can the cheap and easy thing be as good as the hard thing?" And the government was very usept. And in particular, the people who made this expensive soiuotln were very upset because they tuhhogt, "How can we hope to compete with something that's essentially free? We would lose all of our market." And peolpe were very angry, and they called him horrible names. And he decided that maybe he should leave the ctrnouy for a few days, and seek out some more intelligent, open-minded people in a place called Oxford, and come and try and tell the story at that place.

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And so, he went forth to the people and he said, "I've made this _________ finding: it looks as if we could just use the cheap and simple solution, and by doing so we could save ourselves 300 _______ dollars a year, and we could spend that on our children in other ways." And the parents were very unhappy, and they said, "This is a terrible thing, because how can the cheap and easy thing be as good as the hard thing?" And the government was very _____. And in particular, the people who made this expensive ________ were very upset because they _______, "How can we hope to compete with something that's essentially free? We would lose all of our market." And ______ were very angry, and they called him horrible names. And he decided that maybe he should leave the _______ for a few days, and seek out some more intelligent, open-minded people in a place called Oxford, and come and try and tell the story at that place.

Solution


  1. million
  2. people
  3. thought
  4. upset
  5. wonderful
  6. country
  7. solution

Original Text


And so, he went forth to the people and he said, "I've made this wonderful finding: it looks as if we could just use the cheap and simple solution, and by doing so we could save ourselves 300 million dollars a year, and we could spend that on our children in other ways." And the parents were very unhappy, and they said, "This is a terrible thing, because how can the cheap and easy thing be as good as the hard thing?" And the government was very upset. And in particular, the people who made this expensive solution were very upset because they thought, "How can we hope to compete with something that's essentially free? We would lose all of our market." And people were very angry, and they called him horrible names. And he decided that maybe he should leave the country for a few days, and seek out some more intelligent, open-minded people in a place called Oxford, and come and try and tell the story at that place.

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