A
If caught in the act, they were punished, not for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be caught another lash of the whip.
B
The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer things in life for military expertise.
C
Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven to undergo rigorous military training.
D
This consisted mainly of beatings and deprivations of all kinds like going around barefoot in winter, and worse starvation so that they would be forced to steal food to survive.
E
Male children were examined at birth by the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die or exposure.

Solution

B, E, C, D, A.

B introduces the paragraph. EC is a mandatory pair, as ‘those’ in C refers to male children. Military training in ‘C’ is further described in ‘D’ & ‘A’.

A
But categorization schemes are not always helpful in determining what one can do with or about organizational culture.
B
Much of the literature on organizational cultures is focused on categorizing the types of cultures.
C
It has taken the understanding of corporate culture far beyond what used to be called the informal organization.
D
This literature is both interesting and informative.

A
This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe— up to a point.
B
It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.
C
Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
D
The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe their fluctuations.
E
This is how what business schools now call modern finance was born.

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