By providing such services as reverse mortgages, consumer loans, home loans, car loans, investment advice, and staying within urban areas Pinnacle Bank has become one of the most successful banks in the country.
Out of a growing interest in the details of and conflicts in other peoples' lives have grown an audience for 'reality television' programs that are making overnight celebrities of 'ordinary' people.
Declining exports are forcing smaller exporters to choose between raising prices and the reduction of employees.
The combination of artistic genius with the formative power of a great culture is both rarer and more potent, but an artist may well benefit from the formative power of his culture without sharing at least some or all of the beliefs common to it.
During his testimony, the hostile witness referred to unrelated facts about the case, so the judge ordered that his remarks should be struck from the record.
Placement agencies benefit not only from the increasing demand for graduate students but also the higher profits made when highly paid executives are placed, requests for whom have increased in the recent wave of corporate takeovers.
Reared apart from each other, a recent Child Welfare Department study showed noticeable similarities in identical twins, including many unique characteristics of behavior.
When Anastasia had bought the Persian carpet for her living room, she had some concern that the style of the carpet would not suit that of her other curios , a concern that dissipated once she rolled out the carpet.
Wild toads that are natives of America were recently introduced into a neighboring country in an attempt to control pests.
In the past, most children who went to school in Montevideo used to commute by the arranged autos that picked up kids from the same locality. 6 years ago, when the International Josephs School was started in Montevideo, they started their own school bus service. Following the example set by the Josephs School, most schools in Montevideo now have their own school buses for pick up and drop services. The buses are more economical, go faster but are difficult to control. The concern that these buses are more dangerous is clearly borne out by the fact that the number of children who are injured while traveling to school was higher last year than it was 6 years ago.
Which of the following, if true in Montevideo, most seriously undermines the force of the evidence cited?
The new law requires that people who have not yet submitted its income tax returns be proactive in admitting their flaws and make the necessary payments as applicable.
Since the mayor's public appointment of 200 additional members to Woodwill's Police Force six months ago, crime rate in the downtown area of the city has decreased 10%. During the same period, there has been a proportional increase in the number of people residing in the downtown area. Clearly the mayor's public appointment of additional police staff has convinced many people that moving into Woodwill would give them a more secure environment.
The conclusion in the argument is based on which of the following assumptions?
The considerations that led several major colleges to impose admission quotas for certain types of applicants are similar to the quotas imposed in the recent past by large businesses.
“Active Listening” is an effective technique that organizations are using increasingly to reduce conflicts in the workplace. This technique has clearly benefitted Southern Computers Inc., which has been holding “Active Listening” workshops for its employees for the past 5 years. This year, only 5% of Southern Computers' employees have filed formal complaints with the human resources department, while the industry standard averages a 15%.
Which of the following, if true, strongly supports the fact that “Active Listening” has benefitted Southern Computers?
Franz Kafka's stories are so abstruse and his literary style so unique that a word, “Kafkaesque”, was coined to describe situations that are at once bizarre, illogical, and unfathomable. Kafka's “The Metamorphosis”, for example, spawned hundreds of possible interpretations, ranging from Freudian psychoanalytical discussions of the characters' histories to Marxist readings that focus on the alienation of the worker from society. At least one literary critic specifically attributes Kafka's unique style to the stilted relationship between Kafka and his father, Hermann.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
The increase in savings recorded in the last 6 months is due to higher deposits since the number of investors in public banks have grown steadily since the mid-1980's and, at nearly 47 million, are at a record high.
Professor Lieder, head of a privately funded think tank, reports that plummeting values on the Japanese stock exchange have fallen to force many Tokyo brokerage companies to rethink their policies on margin accounts.
Caroline: Outsourcing has proved to be beneficial for innumerable people. Even with high school qualifications people can get well-paid jobs. Hence outsourcing should be promoted.
John: Outsourcing should be restricted. It might have lead to an increase in the number of jobs but the quality has deteriorated. It has also proved to be a hindrance to higher education.
John objects to Caroline's argument by
It can be clearly understood that Patrick is not a good hunter. In the last season, during his hunting expedition at the Tiger Falls Game Reserve, his hunting bounty which consisted of only birds and rabbits, was 40% lesser than the other three of his friends who accompanied him.
Which of the following, if true, would most undermine the conclusion of the stated argument?
The issues that Barkha Dutt deals with in her talk show is universal, projects much of the human condition while occasionally deals with racial issues.