Randy's race car was repeatedly having mechanical failures. His team had worked with the car for months, fine-tuning the engine and upgrading all faulty components, but it still continued to develop snags. Two weeks before a big race, the owner suggested starting with a new car. The team, to a man, promised to fix the old car and failed, as it went out in the second lap. This incident illustrates the group dynamic of:

If the president needed to send two members of the cabinet to italy to negotiate a military treaty, the secretary of defense and the secretary of would most likely be sent.

As societies modernize, what often happens to crime rates? a. they increase b. they decrease c. they remain the same d. they increase slightly and then fall rapidly

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?