Excerpt from Bill Clinton: First Inaugural Address
Bill Clinton

When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world.

Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth.


When President Clinton uses the terms "global," "instantaneously," and "mobile," he means to convey

A)
the arguments over inequality in America.


B)
the various problems with current technology


C)
the ways in which the recession might be ended.


D)
the ease by which news is spread in modern times.