Administrators at a university noted that they were 200 students short of their enrollment projection as the start of the school year approached. The president of the university, fearing a revenue shortage, told the director of admissions, "You need to use whatever means necessary to get enough students to meet the projection before classes start. Run ads in the newspaper, call high school guidance counselors, recruit from our pool of rejected applicants-whatever it takes." The university president is operating as though he were in the ________ era.

A. production
B. marketing department
C. sales
D. marketing company
E. simple trade


Answer: C

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