company’s performance

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by thetrystero » Mon May 18, 2009 11:51 pm
One study found that although government policy and the industrial sector in which a company operates can influence its productivity and financial strength, management decisions have at least as great an impact on a company’s performance.

A.management decisions have at least as great an impact
B.decisions by management have a great impact
C.manager decisions impact greatly
D.decisions by a company’s management impact greatly
E.what a company’s management decides has a greater impact
A sounds good.

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by thetrystero » Mon May 18, 2009 11:58 pm
gmat740 wrote:
B and D are passive choices and does not continue parallelism
can you please elaborate??

Explain only B
the sense in the original sentence is that impact from managerial decisions are comparable to government policies etc.

B says "great" but does not convey a sense of "comparableness" to the aforementioned factors.

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by tanviet » Tue May 19, 2009 5:25 am
only A keep the meaning "as great" . other choices do not keep this meaning and so wrong.