1. He devised an ---- scheme whereby the rate of unemployment in the country could be brought down sharply.

2. I was greatly impressed by the way the judge conducted the trial, ---- when it came to summing up the case.

3. The ---- was not a happy one at the time, but looking back on it, I suppose I’m glad it occurred.

4. Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau were concerned in their writings with the question of a proper ---- between the public good and the right of individuals to exercise free will.

5. Questions of race, ethnicity, and religion have been a ---- source of conflict in American education.