The Mississippi River has an average discharge of 17,300 cubic meters per second but the River discharges 12 times more water than the Mississippi River.

i think it would be reparing roads  

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

adopted the practice of proskynesis, a persian court custom that involved bowing down and kissing the hand of others, depending on their rank.