What canthe consumer price index measure?
a. income distribution
b. the gross national product
c. inflation
d. money supply
c
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Which of the following is accurate regarding the Reagan administration's initial view (about 1981–1984) of the "linkage" concept?
a. Linkage is a fact of life for foreign policy and all policy areas are tied together. b. Linkage only applies to tying Soviet behavior in the third world to arms control efforts with that country. c. Linkage only applies to tying human rights to arms control efforts with the Soviet Union. d. Linkage is irrelevant in the nuclear age. e. Both options B and C are true.
When given a choice, the courts are least likely to decide a case on the basis of
A) standing. B) precedent. C) the Constitution. D) mootness. E) jurisdiction.
The generation of journalists and social critics who exposed the lobbying methods used by the newly emerging industrial corporations and trusts in the post–Civil War era are collectively referred to as
a. nattering nabobs of negativism. b. the chattering class. c. muckrakers. d. the Know-Nothings.
The case of Board of Education v. Allen (1968) dealt with which of the following issues?
a. paying for transportation to private schools with public money b. establishing mandatory prayer in public schools c. providing private religious schools with textbooks at taxpayers’ expense d. prohibiting any religious celebrations, assemblies, or performances