If the Executives of the U

question 117

Multiple Choice

If the executives of the U.S.silicon-chip industry lobby Congress for protection from imports on the grounds that theirs is a new industry that needs time to develop technological efficiency, they are using the:

• A) environmental standards argument.
• B) infant industry argument.
• C) cheap foreign labor argument.
• D) national security argument.

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Atm

Standard atmosphere, a unit of pressure defined as 101,325 Pa; also used to denote the atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Volume

A metric for quantifying the three-dimensional space an object or gas occupies.

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A degree of Celsius, a scale and unit of measurement for temperature.

Atm

A unit of pressure defined as atmospheric pressure, equivalent to the pressure exerted by the Earth's atmosphere at sea level.