What title is given to the top political appointee who heads each of the national government's 15 departments?
A. director
B. secretary
C. general secretary
D. director-general
E. deputy secretary
Answer: B
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A hypothesis:
a. is an uninformed guess about why things happen the way they do. b. is a proposed relationship among variables. c. has one variable. d. has two dependent variables.
Which of the following is NOT true about the U.S. economic policy?
a. A key American economic principle is that economic success is tied to a free market. b. American government intervention in economic matters is limited by its commitment to the principle of laissez-faire. c. U.S. policy-makers have tended to cede power to private actors who are not necessarily concerned with the impact of their activities upon the broader economy. d. With the formation of the Federal Reserve Board in 1913, the national government increased its ability to regulate the U.S. economy. e. Interstate and foreign commerce are regulated by the national government.
How did the Pendleton Act reform the system of hiring and firing federal employees?
a. It required hiring and firing decisions to be based on partisan loyalty rather than merit. b. It required hiring and firing decisions to be based on merit rather than partisan loyalty. c. It continued to allow hiring on the basis of merit, but made firing federal employees easier. d. It continued to allow hiring on the basis of partisan loyalty, but made firing federal employees more difficult.
In general, a recession most likely does which of these?
a. reduces the budget deficit b. leads to higher unemployment c. leads to tax increases d. leads to higher inflation