When lobbyists for a group of corporations, including Dardin Restaurants, which owns the Olive Garden chain, went to legislators that they were friendly with in order to get them to remove a piece of legislation that would have closed a tax loophole that these corporations were using to escape taxes, they engaged in
A) information campaigning.
B) cybercrime.
C) gerrymandering.
D) direct lobbying.
E) grassroots lobbying.
D
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A) a colony of Spain. B) Protectorate of the King of England. C) a part of Mexico under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. D) a territory of the United States. E) an exclusive administrative territory for Native Americans.
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A. special education programs B. physical education programs C. poverty-impacted schools D. magnet schools with special science programs
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a. dams b. levies c. buoys d. floating communities