Terry traveled to a neighboring state to investigate the purchase of two hardware stores. his expenses included travel, legal, accounting, and miscellaneous expenses. the total was $52,000. he incurred the expenses in june and july 2015. under the following circumstances, what can terry deduct in 2015?
a. terry was in the hardware store business and did not acquire the two hardware
stores.
b. terry was in the hardware store business and acquired the two hardware stores and began operating them on october 1, 2015.
c. terry did not acquire the two hardware stores and was not in the hardware store business.
d. terry acquired the two hardware stores but was not in the hardware store business when he acquired them. operations began on october 1, 2015.

Gary becker's controversial the economics of discrimination concludes that price discrimination has no effect on final profits. price discrimination benefits monopolies. labor discrimination in hiring results in more efficient allocations of production. discrimination in hiring practices has no effect on final profits. labor discrimination harms firms that practice it due to increased labor costs. price discrimination harms monopolies, which refutes over two centuries of economic theory.

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In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?