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the company moved itself from emphasizing

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herogmat
 Post subject: the company moved itself from emphasizing
 Post Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:11 pm 
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In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand into high-growth pharmaceuticals and futuristic biotechnologies.
A. itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand
B. itself from emphasizing its chemicals business then to expanding
C. from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expanding
D. from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expand
E. from emphasizing its chemicals business to expanding

What will be the correct choice for the above? My take is A. Tutor please guide.
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hberens18
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 Post Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:57 pm 
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Can you post what the official answer to this problem is?
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herogmat
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 Post Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:19 pm 
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OA is E
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ctrajaram
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Idiom:

From X to Y where X and Y are parallel

E

from emphasizing ..to expanding...
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ashish.jere
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 Post Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:19 pm 
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(E)
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RonPurewal
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ctrajaram wrote:
Idiom:

From X to Y where X and Y are parallel

E

from emphasizing ..to expanding...


yep, this is it.

the meaning is definitely that the company moved from one endeavor to another, so ELEMENT 1 and ELEMENT 2 in the construction "moved from ELEMENT 1 to ELEMENT 2" must be parallel.

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also, "moved itself" is redundant / wordy, and will NEVER be preferred to the more compact, idiomatically better "moved".
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