If the price of beef doubled and the price of poultry stayed the same, people would most likely buy:

What was the land like around rome? dry rocky fertile volcanic

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Pl ! the term laissez-faire refers to the government’s approach, in the 1890s, to foreign policy affecting trade. economic policy affecting business. educational policy affecting schools. domestic policy affecting social reform.