In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Q: (CNN) -- Slumping World No.2 Rory McIlroy and defending champion Luke Donald will not be contesting the weekend action at the European Tour's flagship event at Wentworth. With organizers still reeling from the controversy surrounding Sergio Garcia's "fried chicken" jibe, the star attractions comfortably failed to make the halfway cut Friday at the PGA Championship. McIlroy 2013 travails continued as he followed a first round 74 with a 75 to finish on five-over 149 -- three outside the qualification mark. McIlroy's Northern Ireland colleague Graeme McDowell, who is leading the European Tour's Race to Dubai, finished on the same mark, while Donald, who went to No.1 in the rankings last season with his second straight title at the tournament, was a further shot adrift.Rory McIlroy misses cut at PGA Championship at WentworthWorld No.2 three shots outside the mark on the West CourseHolder Luke Donald and Race to Dubai leader Graeme McDowell also exitItaly's Francesco Molinari leads the way at flagship event 
 Question:But _, who came into the $6 million event saying he was pleased with his game, could offer little in the way of explanation for his poor showing.

A: Rory McIlroy
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Q: ASHLAND, Ohio (CNN) -- An Ohio bakery shut down in October is bustling again, with 60 eager employees who had expected a Christmas on the unemployment rolls. Cookie production has resumed and some workers are back on the job at the Archway factory in Ashland, Ohio. Some 300 workers lost their jobs when the Archway cookie factory in Ashland, Ohio, was suddenly closed by the private equity firm that owned it. The workers also were left without benefits like health insurance. But then Lance Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina-based snack food company, purchased Archway at a bankruptcy auction. And last week 60 workers were asked to return immediately, with perhaps more coming back in the months ahead.Archway bakery suddenly closed doors in October, throwing some 300 out of workLance snack food company steps in, buys Archway at bankruptcy auctionNew owner gives each laid-off worker a prepaid $1,500 debit cardCompany rehires 60 workers, says more will regain jobs if orders keep coming in 
 Question:Workers at the bakery said they felt betrayed when _ at first said there would be more work in a day or two, but then changed the locks.

A: Archway
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Q: (CNN) In recent days, with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency continuing to gain steam and America's longest war staggering through its 16th year, analysts have started invoking the v-word (and it's not "victory"). Vietnam is a sadly apt analogy. Indeed, just as they did in Vietnam 50 years ago, US troops in Afghanistan are fighting a costly, intractable, and unending conflict against a relentlessly resilient asymmetric foe. However, it's not a perfect analogy. The Vietnam War provoked impassioned debate back home, but Americans are hardly discussing the war in Afghanistan. It's completely off the radar. It's high time we talk about this forgotten war, and especially with the Trump administration considering a new policy that would escalate US military involvement. Escalation would be a mistake, and it would further prolong a conflict that can't be won.US President Trump considering whether to increase troop numbers in AfghanistanKugelman: 'Reconciliation won't come easily or quickly, but it's still worth pursuing' 
 Question:And yet, pursuing reconciliation is the only option, short of a complete _ military withdrawal from Afghanistan -- a drastic move that would fulfill one of the Taliban's preconditions for peace talks, but could also lead to spectacular Taliban battlefield gains and increase the possibility that international terrorists would once again use Afghanistan as a base to plan attacks.

A:
US
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