Imagine that your friend is the CEO of a company, called Magna Clothes, that manufactures cool new clothing accessories for both men and women. Now that it has achieved a large following and a level of success in the United States, Magna Clothes wants to start conducting business abroad. Your friend knows you have taken a management class and has asked you to explain the history and significance of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Which of the following statements are true? Check all that apply. a) The WTO allows countries to have observer status before becoming full members, so they can follow discussions on topics that are of direct interest to them.

b) The WTO limits access to its discussions and information to only its member nations.

c) The WTO came into existence in January 1995.

d) Opponents of the WTO sometimes contend that the organization focuses too
narrowly to the globalization of trade, at the expense of human rights and the environment.

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.