In paragraph 2, the author claims that the recent economic recession has
- A. awakened an interest in science and engineering among younger workers.
- B. caused the number of young people seeking jobs in business to increase.
- C. extinguished what little interest afirms had shown in how to manage an older staff.
- D. made a mountain of business management out of a managerial molehill.
- E. led many afirms to dismiss older workers in their periodic staff reductions.