Beginning in 1986, Paul Rangel was a sales professional for the pharmaceutical company Sanofi Aventis U. S. LLC (S-A). Rangel had satisfactory performance reviews until 2006, when S-A issued new "Expectations" guidelines with sales call quotas and other standards that he failed to meet. After two years of negative performance reviews, Rangel—who was then more than forty years old—was terminated as part of a nationwide reduction in force of all sales professionals who had not met the "Expectations" guidelines, including younger workers. Did S-A engage in age discrimination?

The next dividend payment by savitz, inc., will be $2.08 per share. the dividends are anticipated to maintain a growth rate of 6 percent forever. if the stock currently sells for $42 per share, what is the required return?

The gomez company, a merchandising firm, has budgeted its activity for december according to the following information: • sales at $500,000, all for cash. • merchandise inventory on november 30 was $250,000. • the cash balance at december 1 was $20,000. • selling and administrative expenses are budgeted at $50,000 for december and are paid for in cash. • budgeted depreciation for december is $30,000. • the planned merchandise inventory on december 31 is $260,000. • the cost of goods sold represents 75% of the selling price. • all purchases are paid for in cash. the budgeted cash disbursements for december are:

Suppose life expectancy in years (l) is a function of two inputs, health expenditures (h) and nutrition expenditures (n) in hundreds of dollars per year. the production function is upper l equals ch superscript 0.40 baseline upper n superscript 0.60l=ch0.40n0.60. beginning with c = 1, a health input of $400400 per year (hequals=44) and a nutrition input of $400400 per year (nequals=44), show that the marginal product of health expenditures and the marginal product of nutrition expenditures are both decreasing. the marginal product of health expenditures when h goes from 44 to 55 is nothing, and the marginal product of health when h goes from 66 to 77 is nothing. (round your answers to three decimal places.)