All of the following are true statements about the savings and loan (S&L) crisis EXCEPT:
A) it was caused because people invested in risky ventures, such as shady real estate deals.
B) it led to layoffs, companies burdened with huge debt, and overly consolidated industries.
C) millions of Americans lost their savings.
D) the biggest failure was investing in large companies that used the money to buy up weaker competitors.
E) Bush created a plan to resolve the crisis-at a taxpayer cost of $500 million.
D
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A. President Clinton's involvement in foreign wars B. President Clinton's economic policies C. President Clinton's involvement in scandal D. President Clinton's education policies
The most important source of wealth taken from Spain?s colonies in the New World was
A) cocoa. B) tobacco. C) silver from Peruvian and Mexican mines. D) gold from the temples and palaces in Mexico. E) lumber.
Roanoke was a(n) _______________ settlement
A) ?Spanish B) ?English C) ?French D) ?Portuguese E) ?Italian
In 386 b.c.e., Plato founded the ________, a center of philosophical investigation and a school for training statesmen and citizens
Fill in the blank with correct word.