There _______________________now three relatively equal contenders –
Japan, the European Community with the most powerful country,
Germany, and the United States. Though all of them
__________ at about the same economic level, each country
now __________ to develop exactly the same industries.
They __________ that their citizens __________ the
highest standards of living in the 21st century. So these countries
__________ to compete with each other.
The competition _____________around the following questions:
-Who __________________the best products?
-Who __________________the standards of living most rapidly?
-Who __________________the best-educated and best-skilled
workforce in the world?
—Who __________ the world's leader in investment
plant and equipment, research and development, infrastructure?
— Whose institutions — government, education, business
______ world leaders in efficiency?
Together, America, Japan, and Germany _________
enough to be the locomotive to pull the rest of the world into prosperity. If they __________together, they that prosperity.

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