Tia was a doctor who owned shares in a company that made prostheses. When she recommended a prosthesis to a patient, she tended to suggest a model made by the company she held stock in, even when prostheses made by other companies might do the job equally well and cost less. This is an example of

Tumescence occurs when:

a. women become totally absorbed in their orgasm. b. the clitoris becomes engorged with blood. c. men reach the resolution phase. d. blood rate, heart rate, and breathing rates decline.

Religious believers and their leaders who are devoted to the strict observance of ritual and doctrine are called:

a. devout b. extremists c. fanatics d. fundamentalists

Research on environmental racism indicates that

a. it is probably not done intentionally and many dumps are also located in White neighborhoods. b. the problem is overstated; it does not occur very often. c. the location of hazardous wastes near minority neighborhoods is too frequent to be occurring by chance. d. most of the toxic dumps have now been dismantled and cleaned up.

To what extent do official figures accurately indicate the number of poor in America?

A. Official figures minimize the number of poor in America. B. Official figures are an accurate indication of the number of poor in America. C. Official figures tend to overestimate the number of poor in America. D. Since data on personal income may be inaccurate, the accuracy of official figures on poverty is impossible to assess.