Jeffrey Wigand is a vice president of a tobacco company who revealed that his company was deliberately manipulating the effect of the nicotine in its cigarettes to promote addiction. What term best describes him?
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Some people risk their positions and future careers to stop corporate abuse when they see it in the workplace. A whistle-blower is an employee who reports misconduct, most often to an authority outside the firm. Famous examples include Jeffrey Wigand, a vice president of a tobacco company who revealed on 60 Minutes in February 1996 that his company was deliberately manipulating the effect of the nicotine in its cigarettes to promote addiction.
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After the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, women in East Germany ________.
A) lost political power
B) gained political parity with men for the first time
C) dominated the parliaments in Hungary and Poland
D) were guaranteed at least 30 percent of seats in the new parliaments
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The most recent indicators show that Europeans are _________ the European Union.
A) in favor of
B) unanimously in favor of
C) overwhelmingly opposed to
D) unsure about remaining in
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What is the dominant pattern of postmodern religious life?
A) an increasing turn to Christianity as a unifying cultural bond
B) the replacement of Christianity with Islam across Europe
C) the weakening but persistence of Christian churches
D) the disappearance of many mainline Protestant faiths in Western Europe
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Which of these played an especially strong role in the Polish Solidarity movement?
A) the Catholic Church
B) rural laborers
C) the Communist Party
D) foreign supporters
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Which of these triggered a debt crisis in Europe after 2008?
A) the U.S. mortgage crisis
B) the end of the Cold War
C) the collapse of the British economy
D) inflation
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Where did new Russia face the greatest challenge to its authority?
A) Tajikstan
B) Chechnya
C) Ukraine
D) Moldova
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Euro-Islam is best considered a _______ Islamism.
A) rejection of
B) reconciliation with
C) form of
D) radical version of
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How did Mikhail Gorbachev lose power in the Soviet Union?
A) as the result of an economic depression
B) because of a coup by communist hardliners
C) because of the force of nationalism
D) because of the emergence of a capitalist economy
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The New Conservatism British Prime Minister during the 1980s was ________.
A) Tony Blair
B) John Major
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Harold Wilson
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