Answer:
Consumer spending is an important economic indicator because it usually coincides with the overall consumer confidence in a nation's economy. High consumer confidence indicators usually relate to higher levels of consumer spending in the economic market
Answer: a) selecting an impartial leader.
Explanation:
Groupthink is the technique which is used by a group of people to make a decision without considering opinion, thoughts,suggestion etc of members of group.This leads to elimination of creativity and degraded decisions.
To eliminate group-think, the possible way is to choose a impartial leader of that group. Impartial leader will tend to welcome and hear opinion and suggestion from members and also will not expect that everyone should to think about particular result.
Other options are incorrect because people who raise objection are also required so that their objection can be considered for betterment of decision.Conformity cannot help in removing group think.Outside experts are already not a part of group.
Thus, the correct option is option(a).
Answer:
Thanksgiving came to be an official holiday in 1863, declared by President Abraham Lincoln.
Explanation:
The Thanksgiving feast between Pilgrims and the Natives was not public till Bradford's diary was given to be published in 1789. When, a magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale came across this tradition celebrated by Pilgrims and Natives, she wrote letters to five Presidents asking to declare Thanksgiving, a national holiday. It was President Abraham Lincoln who paid heed to this request and with an idea of unte the country during his presidency, he declared the last Thursday of November as a Thanksgiving day and declared it a national holiday. The date, however, was changed to fourth Thursday of November by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, to avoid shifting of national holiday (as some year may have five Thursday's in November).
