zene is a chef and owner of a popular restaurant. zene frequently visits competing restaurants to observe how they are doing things. he told one of his managers, "i eat dinner at a lot of restaurants because i want to know what is going on. i am always concerned that one of our competitors will surprise us with a new service or menu item, like ours but better." in which activity is zene engaging?

Is even more difficult to analyze because of the lack of cues in computer mediated communication.

What occurred during the free banking era? the dollar bill was introduced. the second bank of the united states was established. repaying of loans was not closely monitored. currency varied widely from state to state.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?