Feudal lords granted charters to guilds, allowing them to regulate trade. what did guilds do for their lords in return?

a. the guilds paid taxes, as well as a percentage of their trade profits, to their lords.
b. the guilds paid taxes, raise armies, and provided other services for their lords.
c. the guilds build centers of town governance, where they agreed to serve on political councils.
d. the guilds provided military service for their lords during times of war in domestic and foreign lands.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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