The Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration aroused bitter opposition among many business people because
a. they undermined strong efforts that businesses were already making to protect the environment and worker safety.
b. the agencies were financed by new corporate business taxes.
c. most business leaders were hostile to improvements in the environment or safety.
d. they directly involved the federal government in many aspects of business decision making.
e. they operated under laws passed by an antibusiness administration.
d
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Which of the following is NOT a true statement?
A. Some of humanity's earliest civilizations began in the Great Arid Zone. B. The Great Arid Zone is incapable of supporting life. C. Parts of the Great Arid Zone receive up to twenty inches of rainfall per year. D. Aquifers permitted farming communities to develop in the Great Arid Zone.
Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by __________
A) apprentices B) middle-class reformers C) Irish immigrants D) women workers
The spread of Islam to India promoted a new language that combined Persian and Hindi influence called
a. Arabic. b. Urdu. c. Tamil. d. Bengali. e. Sanskrit.
All of the following statements regarding American leisure activities prior to 1860 are true EXCEPT that
A. popular tastes in public spectacle tended toward the bizarre and fantastic. B. unpaid vacations were becoming common among the middle class. C. minstrel shows were increasingly popular. D. men gravitated to taverns for drinking, talking, and game-playing. E. reading was a principle leisure activity among affluent Americans.