* Global Economy

[ranjeet1975]

Push for greater integration of global economy is not, like earlier, guided by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, but the practical matters of business: cost savings and efficiency.

A. not, like earlier, guided by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, but the practical matters of business
B. being guided by the practical matters of business, instead of complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, as it has been earlier
C. guided not by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, as earlier, but by the practical matters of business
D. guided by the practical matters of business, not complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, which was the case earlier
E. guided not by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, as has been the case earlier, but by the practical matters of business

Why A is wrong? B seems to be wrong due to the use of 'being'. C seems to be wrong due to the use of 'as'.

OA is E

Please clarify

[akhp77]

... + not X + ... + but Y + ...
X and Y should be parallel

Now we have two options C and E.
as - is an adverbial

Can someone explain that "as has been the case earlier" is better than "as earlier"?

[StaceyKoprince]

Can you please check your transcription of this problem? There is at least one missing word.

Did you actually see this question yourself on GMATPrep? Or did you copy it from some other site? It's not a good idea to get these from the web; I've seen many that were transcribed incorrectly or that list the wrong answer as the right answer. Trying to study from those messes people up.

(I've also, by the way, seen people claim a question is GMATPrep when it's not, so be very wary of trying to find these online.)

[jp.jprasanna]

Push for greater integration of global economy is not, like earlier, guided by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, but the practical matters of business: cost savings and efficiency.
A. not, like earlier, guided by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, but the practical
matters of business
B. being guided by the practical matters of business, instead of complicated philosophical questions about the global
fraternity, as it has been earlier
C. guided not by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, as earlier, but by the practical
matters of business
D. guided by the practical matters of business, not complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity,
which was the case earlier
E. guided not by complicated philosophical questions about the global fraternity, as has been the case earlier, but by
the practical matters of business

the problem correctly transcribed as above.

I have same question!? why is E preferred to C?

Cheers

[RonPurewal]

if this problem is "correctly transcribed", then it's obviously not from GMAC, so we're going to delete this thread in about a week.

this problem was very obviously written by someone whose first language isn't english; its non-underlined part contains at least two omissions that no native speaker of english would ever make. (no need to go into exactly what, since it's not tested on the gmat).

sources, people! sources!

this thread will self-destruct in about a week.