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During the 1957 New York ticker-tape parade for US tennis champion Althea Gibson, the confetti-like swirls descending on the scene were paper spools for old “tickers,” telegraph machines used to transmit stock prices. The tickers had long since been retired by 2015, the year of a parade honoring the __________ many referred to the event—in which shredded standard office paper was dumped from the windows of office buildings—as a ticker-tape parade.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
US women’s national soccer team—still,
B
US women’s national soccer team still,
C
US women’s national soccer team, still,
D
US women’s national soccer team. Still,