Paraphrase Each of the Following Short Excerpts and Include the Appropriate

question 9

Short Answer

Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase.
-"The increase in storm intensity in recent years has been tracked by the insurance industry which has been hit hard by recent disasters. Until the mid-1980s, it was widely thought that windstorms or hurricanes with insured losses exceeding one billion (thousand million) U.S.
dollars were only possible, if at all, in the United States." (from Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, by John Houghton, page 4)

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Definitions:

Demographic Characteristics

Attributes of populations, such as age, race, gender, income, and education level, used for statistical analyses and marketing strategies.

Social Forces

The demographic characteristics of the population and its culture.

Culture

encompasses the social behavior, norms, knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the members of a society.

Tariffs

Government levies on goods that are imported or exported.