The Panama Canal is an artificial built waterway and it connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
Answer: Office of Management and budget assists the president in overseeing the federal budget planning and manages the operation of the departments in the Executive Branch. Some major Office of Management and budget functions are: Management and synchronisation of the recruitment, financial management, information and regulatory policies of the administration.
Explanation: I learned it on my social studies class.
Katherine's opportunity cost of attending the lecture is: the transportation and time cost of getting to the lecture event itself plus the reduction in her physics exam grade by not studying tonight.
<u>Explanation</u>:
The opportunity cost is the "cost" lost by not enjoying the benefit associated with the chosen alternative choice. People usually make use of opportunities to make themselves better.
The opportunity cost can be explained as giving up of profit or value to achieve something else. Opportunity cost is the value of giving up the best thing whenever you make a decision. When Katherine decided to attend the lecture of her favorite author, she lost her time, transportation cost and even scored low grade in physics exam as didn’t study on exam night.
Answer:
She might prefer to take a top-down approach to hiring decisions.
Explanation:
In <em>management and organization</em>, he top-down approach refers to a top individual, high ranked, carrying out decisions about how things should go or should be.
This is an example of the top-down approach because the hiring decision is being made by the HR director, who feels that if the applicants score higher on a test then they will do better.
As early as the 1640s Swedish boat builders fabricated several small craft on the Delaware River in their short-lived New Sweden colony, but large-scale shipbuilding started when William Penn (1644-1718)<span> settled his great proprietary grant of Pennsylvania between 1681-1682 with skilled Quaker artisans and maritime merchants escaping the religious persecution (sufferings) in old Britain and seeking economic opportunity in the New World. In fact, six years before he founded Philadelphia, Penn had helped shipwright </span>James West (d. 1701)<span> develop a small shipyard in 1676 along the Delaware Riverfront in what later became Vine Street in the city of Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Penn recruited Welsh, Irish, Scot and English Quaker craftsmen who were involved in shipbuilding in Bristol, England, and more fully along the Thames River, already by 1682 a great center of ship construction and merchant houses. Indeed the Southwark section of London’s Thames riverfront soon gave rise to the Southwark shipbuilding and merchant community along the Delaware riverfront of Philadelphia. When the Philadelphia riverfront became too crowded with merchant docks and buildings for establishment of shipyards, many shipwrights moved a few miles upriver to the Kensington neighborhood that soon rivaled Southwark as a shipbuilding center on the Delaware River.</span>
