State Boards of Education do not have as much political clout or power as governors and state legislatures

Why is the adjective cold used to describe the Cold War?

a. It began with a shortage of coal and heating fuel in Europe. b. It hindered the spread of democracy in Western Europe. c. It was a tense period of time without much use of direct combat. d. It was a period of time in which there was no interaction between major world powers. e. It froze military alliances in their pre-World War II configurations.

The number of presidential press conferences held each year since the 1930s has __________

a. increased b. decreased c. remained constant d. spiked in the 1970s, but since declined