Passage 48(The following is based on material written in 1996.)The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, signed in 1987 by mor...
Passage 47The function of capital markets is to facilitate an exchange of funds among all participants, andyet in practice we find that certain partic...
Passage 46(This passage was written in 1984.)It is now possible to hear a recording of Caruso’s singing that is far superior to any made duringh...
Passage 45Maps made by non-Native Americans to depict Native American land tenure, resources andpopulation distributions appeared almost as early as E...
Passage 44In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry, women were employed primarily inlow-paying, low-skill jobs. To explain this segregat...
Passage 43Homeostasis, an animal’s maintenance of certain internal variables within an acceptable range,particularly in extreme physical environ...
Passage 42Modern manufacturers, who need reliable sources of materials and technologically advancedcomponents to operate profitably, face an increasin...
Passage 41Neotropical coastal mangrove forests are usually zonal,” with certain mangrove species foundpredominantly in the seaward portion of th...
Passage 40In an unfinished but highly suggestive series of essays, the late Sarah Eisentein has focusedattention on the evolution of working women&rsq...
Passage 39The modern multinational corporation is described as having originated when the owner-managersof nineteenth-century British firms carrying o...