Contractions can suggest ______________ tone

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. NAFTA has had an immediate and negative effect on the U.S. automobile industry. 2. Members of APEC include South Korea, the United States, Australia and India. 3. o maintain its strong growth for the foreseeable future, Starbucks has been expanding aggressively overseas. 4. Foreign direct investment flows to less-developed countries by firms in developed countries has dropped substantially. 5. One consequence of an increasingly integrated global economy is imports that are penetrating deeper into the world's largest economies.

The process of assigning tasks to workstations such a way that all workstations have approximately equal time requirement is ________ .

a. idle time analysis b. line balancing c. cycle time optimization d. fair employment practices e. none of these