Question: Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban ______ in candidate elections.
Answer: political spending by corporations
Question: A dearth of snow, and dim forecasts showing not a flake in the near future and temperatures too warm to manufacture it with machines, has forced Olympic organizers in ______ to go to the much-dreaded contingency plan at Cypress Mountain, where six skiing and snowboarding events are scheduled to be held.
Answer: Vancouver
Question: ______ issued its second large recall in two months on Thursday to fix a problem with accelerator pedals that can get stuck, causing vehicles to speed up unintentionally.
Answer: Toyota Motor
Question: The United States will provide a dozen ______ to Pakistan for the first time as part of an effort to encourage Pakistan’s cooperation in fighting Islamic militants on the Afghanistan border, American defense officials said Thursday. But Pakistani military leaders, rebuffing American pressure, said they planned no new offensives for at least six months.
Answer: unamed aerial spy drones
Question: No one was crowing about their big paychecks at Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York on Thursday. Despite a record 2009, the bank announced that it had set aside ______ for bonuses for its employees, less than in some previous years.
Answer: $16.2 billion
No comments:
Post a Comment