Ryder's resorts inc. has multiple tropical resorts in various locations. in a crowded market that caters to all kinds of consumers, this resort caters mainly to gays with guaranteed hassle-free holiday experience at a premium price. what strategy is ryders using to gain competitive advantage? a. a focused low-cost strategy b. a best-cost provider strategy c. a focused differentiation strategy d. a broad differentiation strategy

Lasting peace is possible today because we have learned from the experiences of the last 30 years that peace is a process requiring mutual restraint and practical arrangements. this conference is a part of that process – a challenge, not a conclusion. we face unresolved problems in europe; we face them with very real differences in values and aims. but if we deal with them with careful preparation,…we have the right to expect real progress

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.