In the public sector, , rather than partisan loyalty, family connections, or political influence, is the basis for getting a job.

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

answer; ha,ha,ha, corn on the cop;

answer; georgia,blue ridge region;