Which equity index had the lowest volatility in terms of U.S. dollar-denominated returns for the period of five years ending in 2018?

A) Korea
B) Swiss
C) Toronto
D) Nikkei

Riverside Glass Company operates a manufacturing plant on Spawn River. Discharging pollutants from the plant into the river can result in

A) civil penalties and criminal penalties.
B) civil penalties only.
C) criminal penalties only.
D) no penalties.

Which of these is an advantage of long-term contracts in resource markets?

A) Long-term contracts decrease the duration of recessionary gaps.
B) Long-term contracts reduce unemployment below its natural rate.
C) Long-term contracts help avoid recession in an economy.
D) Long-term contracts increase the flexibility of nominal wages.
E) Long-term contracts reduce the average cost of negotiation.

Assume that the number of first-time home buyers suddenly increases.The demand curve for houses is likely shift to the right.

Which of these statements is TRUE?

A) All groups are teams.
B) Groups are teams with a high level of task interdependence.
C) Unlike teams, groups are associated with an organizational objective.
D) Some groups are just people assembled together in the same physical area.
E) Groups are teams without a unifying relationship.

Offshoring occurs when an organization moves work to foreign entities outside the company.

Staples,an office supply chain,uses ____ to fill orders in its 500,000-square-foot warehouse in Chambersburg,Pennsylvania.

A) part-time employees
B) IT employees
C) robots
D) warehouse personnel

A key reason that our gasoline prices elevated rapidly from 2006 to 2008 was

A) the decline in the value of the dollar.
B) the war in the Middle East.
C) greed by oil exporting countries.
D) inflation.

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