Context and question: Comcast was given an "F" for its corporate governance practices in 2010, by Corporate Library, an independent shareholder-research organization. According to Corporate Library, Comcast's board of directors ability to oversee and control management was severely compromised (at least in 2010) by the fact that several of the directors either worked for the company or had business ties to it (making them susceptible to management pressure), and a third of the directors were over 70 years of age. According to the Wall Street Journal nearly two-thirds of the flights of Comcast's $40 million corporate jet purchased for business travel related to the NBCU acquisition, were to CEO Brian Roberts' private homes or to resorts.
How much was the cost of the NBCU acquisition?
Answer: unanswerable
Context and question: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has stated that zinc damages nerve receptors in the nose, which can cause anosmia. Reports of anosmia were also observed in the 1930s when zinc preparations were used in a failed attempt to prevent polio infections. On June 16, 2009, the FDA said that consumers should stop using zinc-based intranasal cold products and ordered their removal from store shelves. The FDA said the loss of smell can be life-threatening because people with impaired smell cannot detect leaking gas or smoke and cannot tell if food has spoiled before they eat it. Recent research suggests that the topical antimicrobial zinc pyrithione is a potent heat shock response inducer that may impair genomic integrity with induction of PARP-dependent energy crisis in cultured human keratinocytes and melanocytes.
Why was zinc being used in the 1930's?
Answer: polio infections
Context and question: In the Republic of China (Taiwan), which uses traditional Chinese characters, the Ministry of Education's Changyong Guozi Biaozhun Ziti Biao (, Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters) lists 4,808 characters; the Ci Changyong Guozi Biaozhun Ziti Biao (, Chart of Standard Forms of Less-Than-Common National Characters) lists another 6,341 characters. The Chinese Standard Interchange Code (CNS11643)the official national encoding standardsupports 48,027 characters, while the most widely used encoding scheme, BIG-5, supports only 13,053.
What supports 48,027 characters?
Answer:
the official national encoding standard