Read each of the selections below. Then carefully consider t…
Read each of the selections below. Then carefully consider the questions that follow and choose the best responses. Passage A In 2000, John Welch of General Electric paid himself $144 million, while also receiving millions of dollars’ worth of perks, such as a company-paid home and a private box in the stadium where the Boston Red Sox play. When Welch left General Electric in 2001, the firm granted him a pension of $9 million annually, plus lifetime use of a corporate jet, an extravagant Manhattan apartment, and such absurd extras as permission to send his liquor bills to the company. Hundreds of average General Electric employees were laid off—some of their lives ruined—to fund Welch’s carnival of greed. And greed it was in every sense, since Welch avidly grabbed from others but gave almost nothing away. Papers filed by Welch himself in a divorce proceeding declared that he had a net worth of $456 million but donated a mere $3 million annually to charity. This is a miser’s sum, since $456 million conservatively invested would yield around $20 million annually, allowing Welch to give away much more while still living in opulence and not touching his principal. The purpose of this paragraph is to . The tone of the paragraph can be describe as