Multiple choice

Some commentators comment that because workers are becoming accustomed to an economy heading south, businesses are finding that they can lay off employees without provoking strong public reaction.

  1. are finding that they can lay off employees without provoking

  2. find that they could lay off employees without provoking

  3. find that they were capable of laying off workers and not provoke

  4. are finding that they could lay off workers without provoking
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Explanation

Correct; the sentence is correct in the original format as it uses the right parallelism (are becoming…are finding…without provoking)

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