10. suppose you are a director of an energy company that has three divisions—natural gas, oil, and retail (gas stations). these divisions operate independently from one another, but all division managers report to the firm’s ceo. if you were on the compensation committee, as discussed in question 1-12, and your committee was asked to set the compensation for the three division managers, would you use the same criteria as that used for the firm’s ceo? explain your reasoning.

We we ask what a text means, we are inquiring, at least in part, about its a general idea or insight conveyed by the word in its entirety.

But on an april morning in 1959, i heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from new york, say in a tone of quiet desperation, “the problem.” and the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. which best describes the connotation of the word “desperation”? negative, because the woman is feeling confused negative, because the woman is expressing hopelessness positive, because the woman is expressing herself positive, because the woman and the mothers are in agreement

Which factor contributed to the rise of african empires such as ghana and mali ? a. their creation and involvement in trade networks b. they focused only on agricultural production. c. they didn’t engage in warfare with other nations d. their geographic location protected them from attacks.