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Many United States companies have, unfortunately, made the search for legal protection from import competition into a major line of work. Since 1980 the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has received about 280 complaints alleging damage from imports that benefit from subsidies by foreign governments. Another 340 charge that foreign companies "dumped" their products in the United States at "less than fair value." Even when no unfair practices are alleged, the simple claim that an industry has been injured by imports is sufficient grounds to seek relief.Contrary to the general impression, this quest for import relief has hurt more companies than it has helped. As corporations begin to function globally, they develop an intricate web of marketing, production, and research relationships. The complexity of these relationships makes it unlikely that a system of import relief laws will meet the strategic needs of all the units under the same parent company.Internationalization increases the danger that foreign companies will use import relief laws against the very companies the laws were designed to protect. Suppose a United States–owned company establishes an overseas plant to manufacture a product while its competitor makes the same product in the United States. If the competitor can prove injury from the imports—and that the United States company received a subsidy from a foreign government to build its plant abroad—the United States company's products will be uncompetitive in the United States, since they would be subject to duties.Perhaps the most brazen case occurred when the ITC investigated allegations that Canadian companies were injuring the United States salt industry by dumping rock salt, used to de-ice roads. The bizarre aspect of the complaint was that a foreign conglomerate with United States operations was crying for help against a United States company with foreign operations. The "United States" company claiming injury was a subsidiary of a Dutch conglomerate, while the "Canadian'' companies included a subsidiary of a Chicago firm that was the second-largest domestic producer of rock salt.
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Kyle has convinced his client to invest $10,000 in a mutual fund. Kyle projects gains of 20 percent for the first year and 10 percent for the second year. If at the end of the two year period, the value of mutual fund has actually decreased by 1 percent, what percent of the projected value of the investment was the actual value of the investment?
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Ben is stocking milk at the local JumboMart. The milk cooler holds 780 cartons of milk and is completely full when Ben starts his shift. The store sells 75 percent of the milk during the first hour that Ben works and then sells another 20 percent of the remaining milk during the second hour. If there are 1000 cartons of milk in the back room, how many of them will Ben not need in order to restock the milk cooler?
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Is x- 2xy + y = 0?(1) Neither x nor y is an odd integer.(2) Neither x nor y is a prime integer.
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If positive integer $${n}\le{3}$$ and n is the number of times a coin is flipped, what is the value of n?(1) The probability of getting heads exactly once is $$\frac{1}{2}$$.(2) The probability of getting at least one tail is greater than $$\frac{1}{2}$$.
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The food critic complained that her experience at the new Italian restaurant was less impressive than she had expected it to be and her rating of the restaurant will never be five-star.
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The recent increase in UFO sightings in the United States has alarmed many people, to cause them to speculate about the existence of extra-terrestrials here on Earth and prompting fear of a government cover-up.
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Devastated by the catastrophic plane crash, the residents of Cook County accused the Federal Aviation Administration of failing to warn the pilots that the area was experiencing deadly wind shears during the prior weeks.
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If a is an integer and 0 < a < 7 and $${b}={a}^{7}$$, then what is the value of b?(1) $${a}^{—3}$$ > 0.01(2) $${a}^{2}$$ has a units digit of 6.
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John can chop a cord of wood in 4.5 hours. Phil can do the same job in 3 hours. Working together, they make $45 to chop a cord of wood. If each takes home an amount of pay in proportion of the amount of work he performed, how much does Phil make on one cord of wood?
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According to the passage, the Communist party attempted to recruit Black members by
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According to the author, Black Americans were not drawn to socialism because
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It may be inferred from the passage that the International Labor Defense
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The primary purpose of this passage is to
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The author is primarily concerned with
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Advertisement: The world's best coffee beans come from Colombia. The more Colombian beans in a blend of coffee, the better the blend, and no company purchases more Colombian beans than Kreemo Coffee, Inc. So it only stands to reason that if you buy a can of Kreemo's coffee, you're buying the best blended coffee available today.The reasoning of the argument in the advertisement is flawed because it overlooks the possibility that
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Ethanol is a derivative of corn and other grains. When burned as fuel, it emits significantly lower levels of carbon monoxide, a major atmospheric pollutant, than does gasoline. For that reason, environmentalists claim that ethanol is a better source of energy than gasoline. Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the environmentalists' claim?
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was believed in many coastal American cities that the waterfront was an undesirable location for residential buildings. As a result, much of the waterfront in these cities was never developed aesthetically and instead was left to industry and commerce. Today, however, waterfront properties are generally seen as prestigious, as evidenced by the large sums paid for homes along the beach front. A developer who wishes to make a large profit would be wise to buy urban waterfront lots and erect residential buildings on them.Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim made about urban waterfront properties?
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The ancient Nubians inhabited an area in which typhus occurs, yet surprisingly few of their skeletons show the usual evidence of this disease. The skeletons do show deposits of tetracycline, an antibiotic produced by a bacterium common in Nubian soil. This bacterium can flourish on the dried grain used for making two staples of the Nubian diet, beer and bread. Thus, tetracycline in their food probably explains the low incidence of typhus among ancient Nubians.Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
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Corporate Officer: Last year was an unusually poor one for our pharmaceutical division, which has traditionally contributed about 70 percent of the corporation's profits. It is therefore encouraging that there is the following evidence that the chemical division is growing stronger: it contributed 25 percent of the corporation's profit up from 10 percent the previous year.On the basis of the facts stated which of the following is the best critique of the evidence presented above?
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