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by EMAN » Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:32 am
More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.

(A) to greater economic development and investing
(B) to greater development economically
(C) of greater economic development and invest
(D) of greater development economically and invest
(E) for greater economic development and the investment of
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by jennysbelly » Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:45 pm
Looks like A to me.
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by hitmewithgmat » Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:54 pm
IMO is A.
More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.

Subject -cities
verg-are stressing
Only A is parallel to the verb with "and" connection.
B is wrong because it changes the meaning "economically" and where is the verb "investing?"
C, D are wrong because of "invest" and the idiom is "as a means to". In addition, the usage of "economically" is wrong.
E is wrong for all the way.

(A) to greater economic development and investing
(B) to greater development economically
(C) of greater economic development and invest
(D) of greater development economically and invest
(E) for greater economic development and the investment of
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A

by EMAN » Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:59 pm
A is correct. Great job. This was one parallelism problem that tripped me up.
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