Request Description
Shareholder activism includes which of the following?
Answer
the proxy system
recommendations with moral authority
preliminary management resistance
all of the above
Which of the following are examples of significant environmental regulation passed by the Federal Government.
Answer
The Clean Air Act
The Resource and Recovery Act
The National Environmental Property Act
All of the above
None of the above
Shareholders have the ability to promote green initiatives in companies they invest it by?
Answer
Requiring that Boards of Directors act in certain specific ways to above massive shareholder selloff.
Utilizing the “proxy system” to attempt to promote green initiatives.
Utilize shareholder meetings to make demands upon Boards of Directors
Shareholders have no ability to promote green initiatives in companies they invest in..
Which of the following are permissible uses of power of eminent domain.
Answer
The government taking private property to transfer to a private company for development of a strip mall.
The government taking private property to build a highway.
The government taking private property to expand an airport.
All of the above
The power of the U.S. Government to take property from a private individual and use it for public purposes is:
Answer
Due Process
Equal Protection
Eminent Domain
Suffrage
A Tradeable permit plan will provide incentives for companies
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To reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.
Earn additional revenue by selling sulfur dioxide emission credits that they are not utilizing.
Provide incentives to companies to become more technologically efficient.
All of the above.
None of the above.
________________ is the advertising industries established self-regulation organization.
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The National Advertising Board of Governors.
The National Advertising Division of the Council of the Better Business Bureau.
The National Advertising Division of the Council on Advertising.
The National Advertising Division of the Council on Truth in Advertising.
The original intent of brand expansion is to
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Sponsor culture and be culture.
Nudge the hosting culture into the background and make the brand the star.
Work within the existing culture to create a stronger brand awareness.
All of the above.
None of the above.
The FTC regulates various industries by
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The use of heavy litigation
Fines
Consent decree’s
Mediation and/or arbitration
According to John Kenneth Galbraith, the theory of consumer demand is based on the following broad assumption(s):
I. Socialism will work in all societies because consumers are willing to share their wealth.
II. The urgency of wants does not diminish as more of them are satisfied.
III. Wants originate in the personality of the consumer.
Answer
I only
I and II
III only
II and III
Commercial speech is protected under which Amendment to the US Constitution?
Answer
1st Amendment
5th Amendment
14th Amendment
None of the above
In the case of IMS Health, Inc., et al v. Kelly Ayotte, Attorney General of New Hampshire, District Judge Barbadora argues that
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Pharmaceutical detailing is sometimes used in ways that benefit public health.
Pharmaceutical detailing does not distinguish between beneficial detailing and harmful detailing.
Neither A nor B.
Both A and B.
The goal of the Consumer Product Safety Commission is to:
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Ensure that work place injuries never occur.
Protect consumers from all risk of injury, illness, or death from unsafe products.
Protect consumers from unreasonable risk of injury, illness, or death from unsafe products.
Protect worker from unreasonable risk of injury or death in the workplace.
The Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Highway Transportation Safety Association are
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Cabinet Departments within the Executive Branch
Subcommittees of the Senate and House of Representatives within the Legislative Branch
Judicially created organizations to implement Supreme Court mandates related to product safety.
Independent Agencies that report to no branch of government.
The most notable exception to caveat emptor was for
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Food
Automobiles
Clothing
Shoes
The Ford Pinto exploded when rear-ended by another vehicle. Of the types of defects a product may have, the Pinto suffered from
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Design Defect
Manufacturing Defect
Warning Defect
End-user Defect
The UCC controls contracts that:
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Deal with the sale of Goods.
Contracts over $500 in value.
Contracts between Merchants.
All of the above.
Punitive damages are:
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Damages that are intended to compensate the injured parties for their injures.
Damages that are intended to reimburse the injured party for medical expenses.
Damages that are intended to reimburse the injured party for time lost from work.
Damages that are intended to punish the defendant.
Debora Halbert asserts in her essay that:
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women have benefited greatly from intellectual property laws.
women’s creativity has existed outside the boundaries of intellectual property law
in the nineteenth century, writing poetry and novels enabled women to not only express themselves intellectually but to reap financial rewards as well.
when women knitted or quilted, they were reluctant to share their patterns with other women.
The difference between the Project Gutenberg (PG) and the Google book scanning project is:
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The PG limits itself to the “classics”
The PG limits itself to only works in the public domain
Google only digitizes full documents but the PG digitizes key segments
The PG limits itself to “orphan” works – those with hard-to-find authors or owners.
If an author owns a copyright to a non-fiction essay, then publishes that essay in an anthology of similar essays published by a major publishing company, the rights involved in this relationship would be referred to as ______.
Answer
collective work
public domain
collective bargaining
joint domain
The “inducement rule” is vital to understanding if infringement has occurred in what type of intellectual property?
Answer
Patent
Tradesecret
Trademark
Copyright
Which of the following are characteristics needed to obtain a patent
Answer
A new invention
A novel invention
A useful invention
All of the above
None of the above
Once the copyright on a work has expired,
Answer
The owner can renew it for a new term
The work is in the public domain
The work becomes the property of the government
The work is considered no longer creative
Parodies occur in what type of intellectual property?
Answer
Trademarks
Tradesecrets
Patents
Copyrights
Solution Description
Shareholder activism includes which of the following?
Answer
the proxy system
recommendations with moral authority
preliminary management resistance
all of the above
Which of the following are examples of significant environmental regulation passed by the Federal Government.
Answer
The Clean Air Act
The Resource and Recovery Act
The National Environmental Property Act
All of the above
None of the above
Shareholders have the ability to promote green initiatives in companies they invest it by?
Answer
Requiring that Boards of Directors act in certain specific ways to above massive shareholder selloff.
Utilizing the “proxy system” to attempt to promote green initiatives.
Utilize shareholder meetings to make demands upon Boards of Directors
Shareholders have no ability to promote green initiatives in companies they invest in..
Which of the following are permissible uses of power of eminent domain.
Answer
The government taking private property to transfer to a private company for development of a strip mall.
The government taking private property to build a highway.
The government taking private property to expand an airport.
All of the above
The power of the U.S. Government to take property from a private individual and use it for public purposes is:
Answer
Due Process
Equal Protection
Eminent Domain
Suffrage
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