What can be inferred from these lines describing the pardoner in chaucer's prologue to the canterbury tales? he had a fine veronica sewed to cap. his wallet lay before him in his lap, stuffed full of pardons brought from rome all hot.

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. the first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countries in an effort to build a stronger team. after learning this, the second team begins its own recruitment campaign to find even better gymnasts. over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rival's most recent addition. which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario?