In light of persistent , growing and the tendency by some firms and industries to seek legislative redress for failures in the marketplace, the US Congress in the past two decades has increasingly been willing to provide the president with more powers to trade.

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)

Myflvs -question 3 multiple choice worth 2 points)(10.04 hc)in panama city in january, high tide was at midnight. the water level at high tide was 9 feet and1 foot at low tide. assuming the next high tide is exactly 12 hours later and that the height of thewater can be modeled by a cosine curve, find an equation for water level in january for panamacity as a function of time (t).of(t) = 4 + 5of(t) = 5 cost + 4o 460) = 5 cos 1+ 4of(0) = 4 cos + 5

Robert black, regional manager for ford in texas and oklahoma, faced a dilemma. the ford f-150 pickup truck was the best-selling pickup ever, yet ford's headquarters in detroit had decided to introduce a completely redesigned f-150. how could mr. black sell both trucks at the same time? he still had "old" f-150s in stock. in his advertising, mr. black referred to the new f-150s as follows: "not a better f-150. just the only truck good enough to be the next f-150." this statement represents ford's of the new f-150.