Cost-Of-Living Adjustment Clauses (COLAs)

question 291

Multiple Choice

Cost-of-living adjustment clauses (COLAs)

• A) invalidate the "rule of 70."
• B) apply only to demand-pull inflation.
• C) increase the gap between nominal and real income.
• D) tie wage increases to changes in the price level.

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Region that forms during early cellular differentiation of the embryo; believed to contain unique chemical signals that are important during development.

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