The Rivera's owned and operated a small pharmacy in New York. They spoke to Hyman a representative of CVS Pharmacy, inc. Hyman told them that for 25,000 CVS would build them a store and stock it for them. The Rivera's gave up their store and bought a lot on which CVS was to build the store. CVS then told them the price went up to 35,000. The Rivera's borrowed the extra money, but then CVS told them the cost would be 50,000. Negotiations broke off and the Rivera's sued. (1) Is there a contract?
(2) and if there is not is there another way the Rivera's can recover any money?

Which of these things did galileo not do? a. stop publishing his scientific work after being convicted of heresy b. invent the concept of acceleration c. experiment with rolling balls down ramps of increasing steepness to test how objects would fall d. argue that earth moves around the sun e. make up a thought experiment that indicated that objects would fall at the same rate

Specialization—the division of labor—enhances productivity and efficiency by a) allowing workers to take advantage of existing differences in their abilities and skills. b) avoiding the time loss involved in shifting from one production task to another. c) allowing workers to develop skills by working on one, or a limited number, of tasks. d)all of the means identified in the other answers.

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.