What is the stated main idea in the paragraph? the temperature had been more than 100 degrees for seven days in a row. the city was in the middle of a heat wave. there had been no rain to cool things off. even at night, the temperature stayed in the 90s. so many people were using air conditioners and fans that the power kept going off. a. there had been no rain to cool things off. b. the city was in the middle of a heat wave. c. the temperature had been more than 100 degrees for seven days in a row. d. so many people were using air conditioners and fans that the power kept going off

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now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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