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C. The urban regions of the county gradually became more politically stable.

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I hope this helps you out. While it's true the rural regions lost political power, depending on the region, it's not true everywhere. Urban regions gained economic power. Rural regions lost economic power.

an expansion is one of two basic business cycle phases; the other is contraction. the transition from expansion to contraction is a peak, and the changeover from contraction to expansion is a trough.

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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