Recently an influential auto safety group has
called for states to increase the legal driving
age from sixteen to seventeen or even
eighteen in order to decrease teen traffic
accidents and fatalities. In response to the
auto safety group, your state government has
crafted a bill to increase the driving age in
your state to eighteen. Write a carefully
worded e-mail to persuade your state senator
or state representative to either pass or turn
down this bill
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In the real world, feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. he came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. he considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” if a company habitually paid below 80 percent, feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: the cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. unfortunately, the number of bagels that disappear without being paid for has also gone up. don’t let that continue. i don’t imagine that you would teach your children to cheat, so why do it yourselves? the excerpt serves as which type of support for the authors’ argument? a claim an example a conclusion a counterclaim