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].

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A recent outbreak of E. coli linked to Chipotle restaurants in nine U.S. states has caused sales to plummet by as much as 22 percent in recent weeks, the restaurant chain announced on Friday. The Denver-based chain said sales trends have been 'extremely volatile' since it closed restaurants in Oregon and Washington in early November as a result of the outbreak. Earlier on Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak had expanded to nine states, with a total of 52 reported illnesses. That was up from the six states and 45 illnesses as of late November.Sales have dived by 22 percent in recent weeks as E. coli outbreak expands52 people in nine U.S. states have gotten sick from eating at Chipotle restaurantsE. coli bacteria cause diarrhea and abdominal pains, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
 Question:_, which is known for touting the quality of its ingredients, also said Friday it was tightening its food standards.

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Chipotle


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Washington (CNN) Sen. Marco Rubio, a longtime hawk on Syria, praised the US airstrike on a Syrian airfield days after a chemical attack on innocents attributed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Following news that President Donald Trump had green-lit the US action, Rubio said Thursday on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that Russia could not fairly criticize the military strike because Russia backed Assad -- who is accused of perpetrating the attack on his own people. "They have no standing to say anything about this," Rubio said of the Russians. He said that the move doesn't just send a message, but amounts to a "significant degrading" of Assad's ability to carry out chemical attacks.Rubio said Russians had put themselves into harm's wayHe said the strikes indicated a firm US stance against Assad's reign 
 Question:"I'll let them speak for their policy, but tonight's actions show that the days of being able to act with impunity are over when it comes to _-Assad," Rubio said.

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Bashar al


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An Alabama woman on trial for murder in her granddaughter's death called out the child's name time after time as the girl lay on the ground after collapsing, but didn't tell medics the girl had run for hours, according to evidence presented on Tuesday. Joyce Hardin Garrard, 49, is heard repeatedly calling the name of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin in the more than 11-minute 911 recording played in an otherwise silent courtroom. The child's stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, told the 911 operator the girl had a seizure. Garrard talked in the background. Jurors heard a 911 during which Joyce Hardin Garrard didn't tell medics that she had made the girl had run for hours and could also be heard asking for 'a smoke' while the child was unconsciousSavannah Hardin, 9, died three years ago from a seizure that occured while her grandmother Joyce Garrard, 49, was forcing her to run as punishmentGarrard is currently on trail and accused of murderWitness Jolie Jacobs testified that Savannah was crying and begging to stop before she collapsedShe also told the court that she heard Garrard striking the child and described as 'skin on skin'Jurors heard a 911 during which Garrard didn't tell medics that she had made the girl had run for hoursGarrard can also be heard on the recording asking for 'a smoke' while the child was unconscious 
 Question:'She was throwing up while she was trying to get water,' _ testified.

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Jolie Jacobs


