Who has the ability to call a state of emergency after a natural disaster has struck?

In using a matched-subjects design, it is important to remember that matching on more than one continuous variable

A) is difficult to accomplish and will usually result in significant participant loss. B) is preferred to matching on dichotomous variables. C) is difficult to accomplish and usually results in skewed distributions. D) often confounds the results if the variables are strongly related to performance on the dependent measure(s).

A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches is known as a ________

A. senator B. legislator C. lobbyist D. convener E. caseworker