Question: Irradiation also seems more cost-effective than changing farming and slaughtering practices.
Irradiation seems to be more efficient for money, than changing practices.

Answer: yes

Question: In a sense, individual accounts could serve as a way to channel saving through the government into resources for private investment while avoiding issues associated with government ownership of nonfederal assets.
Government ownership of nonfederal assets has problems associated with it.

Answer: yes

Question: Using this criteria the agency estimated that 4,600 of the 6,400 firms affected by the rule would be small businesses and that approximately 15,000 small entities in the industry groups affected by the proposed rule would not be affected as they employed less than 10 persons.
The agency thought that ten percent of the firms would be affected.

Answer:
no