Which was one effect of reducing the size and cost of computers?
a. computer companies lost money.
b. software and operating systems became much more complicated.
c. they were easily operated by everyone.
d. many ordinary people could buy and use them.

Which of the following episodes led to widespread charges that president reagan was not in adequate control? a. the u.s. retreat from lebanon after the bombing deaths of 241 u.s. marines as they lay sleeping in their barracks near beirut b. the trading of arms for hostages and the illegal funding of a right-wing insurgency in the iran-contra affair c. the sale of millions of acres of public lands to private corporations by the department of interior d. the proposal to congress, year after year, of federal budgets with huge deficits that ultimately ended up tripling the national debt

Most white men in the antebellum south could best be described as a) plantation owners. b) seafaring traders. c) merchants or shopkeepers. d) nonslaveholding family farmers.

Why might collective bargaining fail, causing a union to go on strike? a the union agrees with the boss about wages. b the boss compromises about work hours. c the factory goes out of business, causing the workers to lose their jobs. d the boss refuses to address dangerous working conditions in the factories.