Syntax: Where/When/In Which

1. Which word is correct for the underlined portion of the following sentence? It exemplified a corporate era where financialization too often eclipsed production.

2. In the next sentence, which of the underlined words or phrases, if any, has an error? The consultant’s suggestion included a plan where each of the departments was to reduce its expenses by holding a contest soliciting ideas on how to do so.

3. In the next sentence, which of the underlined words or phrases, if any, has an error? Under one scenario, the combined effects of business uncertainty and a weaker pound would be likely to cut the economy’s growth rate (compared with a situation where Britain had voted to remain in the EU) by 1-2 percentage points in the next 12 months, with the worst impact coming in the second half of this year.

4. In the next sentence, which of the underlined words or phrases, if any, has an error? The hundredth monkey effect, a controversial theory popularized by Lawrence Blair and Lyall Watson in the 1970s, a phenomenon in which one group adopts rapidly a new behavior or idea after a critical mass of the members of another group—in the eponymous case, about 100 macaque monkeys on a single island that all learned to wash sweet potatoes—exhibit that same behavior.

5. In the next sentence, which of the underlined words or phrases, if any, has an error? Cloture, a Senate procedure used when attempting to bring a matter to vote, causes a limitation where further consideration of a given proposal to no more than thirty hours.