P1 - situation old and new times, + productivity
P2 - laws around to improve today's situation.
1. In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?
(B) Describing a problem and proposing a solution
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2. It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following is true of majority shareholders in a corporation?
In addition, any institution that holds twenty percent or more of a company's stock should be forced to give the public one day's notice of the intent to sell those shares.
(C) They cannot make quick profits by selling their stock in the corporation.
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3. According to the passage, the purpose of the requirement suggested in lines 30-33 [In addition, any institution that holds twenty percent or more of a company's stock should be forced to give the public one day's notice of the intent to sell those shares.] would be which of the following?
Unless the announced sale could be explained to the public on grounds other than anticipated future losses, the value of the stock would plummet and, like the old-time capitalists, major investors could cut their losses only by helping to restore their companies' productivity.
(C) To discourage short-term profit-taking by institutional stockholders
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4. The author suggests that which of the following is a true statement about people who typify the “old-style capitalist" referred to in line 23?
P2 is all on these lines.
(B) They seldom engaged in short-term trading of the stock they owned.
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5. It can be inferred that the author makes which of the following assumptions about the businesses once controlled by individual capitalists?
Because putting such large amounts of stock on the market would only depress its value, they could not sell out for a quick profit and instead had to concentrate on improving the long-term productivity of their companies
(B) Improving long-term productivity led to increased profits.
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6. The author suggests that the role of large institutions as stockholders differs from that of the “old-style capitalist” in part because large institutions
P2 is around this.
(B) are prohibited by law from owning a majority of a corporation’s stock
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7. The primary function of the second paragraph of the passage is to
(E) recommend actions
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8. The passage supports which of the following statements?
(D) The sudden sale of a large amount of stock in any one corporation makes the value of the stock go down.
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