What effect did the construction of the transcontinental railroad have on coast-to-coast communication?
the railroad made coast-to-coast communication instantaneous.
the railroad reduced coast-to-coast communication time from about a week to about a day.
the railroad reduced coast-to-coast communication time from about 180 days to about a week.
d. the railroad made coast-to-coast communication more complicated.

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

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