Managing the state bureaucracy is generally left to the ________

A. legislature and its appointees
B. private administrators hired to supervise the agencies
C. governor's staff and department heads
D. staff of the attorney general and comptroller


ANSWER: C

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Journalists seldom deliberately tilt their coverage in favor of one side over another because

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