Which best explains what it means for a company to sell its stock? Investors are lending the company money, which the company must pay back later with interest.
Investors are buying a share of the loans the company has taken from banks. As the loans are repaid, the investors will profit.
The company is trading shares of ownership with a business competitor, so that both businesses cannot have too great a loss.
The company is selling shares of ownership and a share of its profits in exchange for money it can use to operate its business.

1.a)britain

2.b)spain

3.c)french

4.d)portugal

explanation:

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.

explanation:

the puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the church of england the common unity strengthened the community.