What were the key features of the Bretton Woods international monetary system?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: 44 countries agreed to meet at this resort in New Hampshire in 1944. It was there that these countries agreed to peg their currencies to the USD which was then convertible to gold at 35 dollars an ounce. They decided to put the dollar as the center of all currencies because we were the most predictable economy during the period after WWII.
The IMF and World Bank were created because of Bretton Woods. - Bretton Woods is no longer around today but the IMF and World Bank are.
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A. duress B. fraud C. mutual mistake D. unintentional tort
If the employer and the union cannot agree on the basis on which employees should be in the bargaining unit, then
A. the affected employees vote to determine the unit. B. the unit is determined by the parties using job classifications as the standard. C. the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will determine the "appropriate unit." D. the union is given additional time to organize other employees.
Which of the following theories provides that the "injury" occurs when the disease is first diagnosed?
A) Exposure theory B) Double trigger theory C) Manifestation theory D) Retroactive theory
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A. psychographic positioning. B. lifestyle segmentation. C. volume segmentation. D. purchase-occasion segmentation. E. demographic segmentation.