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. to revolve to reach to make to be to hope to have to act to be to be to try to expand to start to want to have to be