When an agency allocates and uses resources responsibly, the agency is practicing management. a) allocation b) conservation c) resource d) time e) quality control

Option B, Conservation

Explanation:

Conservation Management is a process in which an authority tries to use the available resources judicially with a perspective of fulfilling the requirements of current generation and thereby allocating /preserving resources for our future generation. This reduces the rate of resources depletion due to overconsumption

This practice of utilizing resources effectively is also termed as sustainability approach towards resource utilization.  

Hence, option B is correct

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.