Identify two reasons that OMB staff often does not make excessive budget cuts to agency requests.
What will be an ideal response?
(1) An agency can go around OMB and appeal directly to the OMB director, the president or Congress and (2) OMB budget examiners may favor the agencies and become advocates of their requests
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Suppose you lived in an extremely poor slum in the global South and had no money or job—but retained all the knowledge you now have. What strategies would you adopt for your own survival and well-being?
What strategies would you reject as infeasible? Would you adopt or reject the idea of revolution? Why? What will be an ideal response?
The researcher Jane Goodall observed the behaviors and social structures of chimpanzees in the wild for many years. Her research could be classified as
a. experimental. b. a case study. c. systematic observation. d. ethological.
Which illustrates Dahl's concept of enlightened understanding?
a.) Distortion of news coverage to intentionally mislead and influence people b.) Lobbying Congress c.) The freedom to read or write opinion pieces in a newspaper d.) the right to a fair trial
Senators are re-elected every ___ years with 1/3 of the Senate being up for election every 2 years.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).