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A good CR from OG_10_Please discuss.

by gmat_perfect » Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:33 am
Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the United States to wage a prolonged war would be seriously endangered if the machine-tool manufacturing base shrinks further. Before the Defense Department publicly connected this security issue with the import quota issue, however, the machine-tool industry raised the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.

Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the machine-tool industrys
raising the issue above regarding national security?

A. When the aircraft industries retooled, they provided a large amount of work for toobuilders.
B. The Defense Department is only marginally concerned with the effects of foreigncompetition on the machine-tool industry.
C. The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining governmental protectionagainst imports on grounds other than defense.
D. A few weapons important for defense consist of parts that do not require extensivemachining.
E. Several federal government programs have been designed which will enable domesticmachine-tool manufacturing firms to compete successfully with foreign toolmakers.


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by gmat_perfect » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:10 pm
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by deepak4mba » Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:29 pm
IMO C.

Time : 01:45

A - Seems a bit out of context.
B - Marginal consideration should also be a concern and therefore, there should h ave been some action.
C- Tool industry could not convince the govt on any grounds and hence, resorted to their last option - national security.
D - Out of context.
E- If govt programs would have given support, there would not have been any cry at all.

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by sumanr84 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:59 am
gmat_perfect wrote:Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the United States to wage a prolonged war would be seriously endangered if the machine-tool manufacturing base shrinks further. Before the Defense Department publicly connected this security issue with the import quota issue, however, the machine-tool industry raised the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.

Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the machine-tool industrys
raising the issue above regarding national security?

A. When the aircraft industries retooled, they provided a large amount of work for toobuilders.
B. The Defense Department is only marginally concerned with the effects of foreigncompetition on the machine-tool industry.
C. The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining governmental protection against imports on grounds other than defense.
D. A few weapons important for defense consist of parts that do not require extensivemachining.
E. Several federal government programs have been designed which will enable domesticmachine-tool manufacturing firms to compete successfully with foreign toolmakers.

Stimulus states 2 different aspects - one from Defense Dept point of view and other from machine tool industry point of view. Defense dept says that US cannot sustain a prolonged war and needs to import;however, machine tool industry says that import would pose a threat to the national security. Now, we have been asked to find an explanation as to why machine tool industry raised this issue in its petition.

The reason why machine tool industry raised this issue may be because of the fact that industry tried to obtain the same in the past but it might have been rejected on grounds of national security. So, answer goes in favor of C to explain this paradox and fill the gap in explanation.
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by ashish1354 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:33 am
Please explain why b) is not the answer & why only c) can be the answer
Because i thought that since Defense dept. not bothered about effects of foreign competition, machine-tool industry had to step up and file petition.

but C) does not answer why machine tool industry files petition before defense dept does.

Please explain what am i missing...
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by vaibhavgupta » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:22 am
gmat_perfect wrote:Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the United States to wage a prolonged war would be seriously endangered if the machine-tool manufacturing base shrinks further. Before the Defense Department publicly connected this security issue with the import quota issue, however, the machine-tool industry raised the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.

Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the machine-tool industrys
raising the issue above regarding national security?

A. When the aircraft industries retooled, they provided a large amount of work for toobuilders.
B. The Defense Department is only marginally concerned with the effects of foreigncompetition on the machine-tool industry.
C. The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining governmental protectionagainst imports on grounds other than defense.
D. A few weapons important for defense consist of parts that do not require extensivemachining.
E. Several federal government programs have been designed which will enable domesticmachine-tool manufacturing firms to compete successfully with foreign toolmakers.


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by swetamurthy » Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:26 am
IMO
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MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY IS AGAINST IMPORTS AS IT WOULD AFFECT THEIR ALREADY SHRINKING BUSINESS
AND SO BASED ON PREVIOUS HISTORY RESORTS TO USING DEFENSE AS A PRETENSE TO GET PROTECTION.
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by vzzai » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:33 pm
+1 C
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by lunarpower » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:43 pm
i received a private message about (b) vs (c) in this thread.

first, make sure you understand what the problem is asking.
the problem asks you to explain why the machine-tool industry bothered to raise this issue. from this question, we can infer that some explanation must actually be needed as to this issue -- in other words, that this is not a normal issue for the industry to bring up.
therefore, we need a direct reason why the industry would bring up national security (a seemingly distant rationale) in calling for import quotas.

answer choice (c) is perfect -- it basically says that the industry couldn't get the government's attention with any other approach, so they tried the defense angle.

in considering answer choice (b), note that the machine-tool industry propounded this argument before the defense department made its announcement.
answer choice (b) basically says that the defense department has a reputation for not caring very much about this issue. therefore, choice (b) actually works against the argument! if this choice is true, then the machine-tool industry should have expected the defense department to reply with, "so what? we don't really care about that."
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