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The following text is adapted from an informational passage written for a broad audience. The city of Riverside recently installed solar-powered streetlights along its main boulevard. These new lights cost 40% less to operate than the old electric streetlights they replaced. Additionally, the solar lights require less frequent maintenance because they have fewer mechanical components. The city council plans to expand the solar streetlight program to residential neighborhoods next year. Based on the text, what can most reasonably be inferred about the city council's decision to expand the solar streetlight program?

The following text is adapted from an informational passage written for a broad audience. In the mid-nineteenth century, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis observed that the mortality rate from childbed fever was dramatically higher in a maternity ward staffed by medical students than in a ward staffed by midwives. Semmelweis noticed that the medical students often came directly from performing autopsies to delivering babies without washing their hands. When he instituted a policy requiring hand-washing with a chlorinated lime solution, the mortality rate in the students' ward dropped to levels comparable to the midwives' ward. Despite this striking evidence, Semmelweis's colleagues largely rejected his findings, and he was eventually dismissed from his position. Based on the text, what can most reasonably be inferred about the medical establishment's response to Semmelweis?