Businesses could commercialize their products in further places, because the development of rapid manufacturing and transportation systems decreased the time needed for transactions and, this enhanced productivity and decreased production costs.
There was a progressive market integration, as markets grew from the local sphere and started to function all over the nation and even internationally, increasing the amounts supplied and the competitiveness of firms and decreasing the prices of products. Co<u>nsumers could choose from different producers as now they could also purchase from coampnies located in far off places apart from local ones, and also buy cheaper</u> due to the increase in competitiveness, hence they were also benefited by the technological progress.
An amicus brief is different from a normal brief in that it is written by someone that has interested in the topic but is not party to the lawsuit. Amicus briefs are known as "friend of the court" briefs and they serve to educate.
Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa's Nationalist Party in 1948 to the country's harsh, institutionalized system of racial segregation, came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.
