The number of the employees has grown from 1,000 to 1,200.This means it has risen ________ 20 percent.

 —What ________ an important part in their lives?—Friends.

We are rather          about the sympathy he claims to have for the poor because he is mean with his money.

His _______ look suggested that he _______ the Japanese to give up arms .

He used to be a successful businessman, but drug ____ his ruin.