The sales and marketing teams of Company XYZ have just presented a proposal to manufacture a new product. The purchasing agent has located domestic suppliers for most of the raw materials and components. The engineers have created a new process that shaves off several steps. The new product has the potential to make cars more fuel-efficient and safer, but the new process calls for a synthetic material that is banned in Europe and China. What aspects of the proposal are most likely to have a positive impact on the company's green initiatives? using synthetic materials improving mileage simplifying the process selecting domestic suppliers

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.