Amidwestern city negotiates a deal with a company to operate its parking meter system. the city will receive a lump sum payment of several million dollars, and the company will have the rights to operate, maintain, and collect the revenue from the parking meters. this is an example of

privatization

Explanation:

According to my research on different business strategies, I can say that based on the information provided within the question this is an example of privatization. This term refers to the process of transferring an enterprise or industry from the public sector to the private sector. In this situation the industry being transferred are the Parking Meter Systems.

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the arab empire adopted the muslim religion as their main belief. arabs would influence the people from the territories they invaded towards islam (the muslim belief).

nevertheless, throughout the history of the arab empire, rulers brought intellectual individuals from other religions to their centers of learning. these other foreigners included jews, christians, greeks, persians, and indians.   these resulted in the adoption of important knowledge developed by these cultures by the arabic empire. for example, the works of aristotle were translated from greek to arab and indian scientists brought the numerical concept of "zero" to the arabs.

nowadays, 93% of the arab population is muslim, which at the same time is subdivided in sects including the sunni, zaini, alawi, shia. the remaining 7% is composed mainly of christians.