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Question 16 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2017 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

This year alone, more than 8,600 stores could close, according to industry estimates, many of them the brand-name anchor outlets that real estate developers once stumbled over themselves to court. Already there have been 5,300 retail closings this year… Sears Holdings—which owns…

The author calls the mall an ecosystem unto itself because

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