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		<distractor><![CDATA[anxious]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[decade]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[supervisor]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[responsible]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[logical]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[systematic]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[ascertain]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[solve]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[researched]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[examining]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[experiments]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[assume]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[Michael was worried about his promotion.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[He needn't have been anxious though.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[He had worked in the Product Development Division for nine and a half years, almost a decade.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[He knew the department inside out.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[Now, however, he would be the director.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[As a member of the department, he had only to do what his supervisor told him.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[As the director, he would be the person responsible for the success of his department.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[Fears are not always logical; in fact, they are often illogical.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[As his first task, he decided to conduct a systematic analysis of the steps required to develop new products, and to organize the tasks into a logical order.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[The first step in developing new products would be to ascertain what kind of products the market needed and what problems existed with the products currently being used.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[The second task would be to find out how best to examine these problems and determine what kind of research would be needed to solve the problems.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[It would be better to say, reexamine these problems, since most of these unsolved problems had been thoroughly researched over the years.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[The third task would be to look at the quality and characteristics of the competition's products.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[By examining the competition's products, he would know where he should improve.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[And the final task would be to decide how to gather the most substantial information from the fewest number of experiments.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[Michael smiled and sat back to read over his list.]]></distractor>
		<distractor><![CDATA[Confident that he had a good team and a good plan, he felt ready to assume his new job.]]></distractor>
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