Phillips hires addis, who had sixteen prior convictions for the use of hallucinogenic drugs, as an air traffic controller for his private airport. phillips could easily have discovered the convictions had he bothered to make a routine criminal record check, but this was just too much trouble. phillips knew nothing whatsoever about the job of an air traffic controller, and, when he hired addis, merely told him to "get the planes in safely the best way you know how; the details are up to you." one day, phillips held a private birthday party for a celebrity and invited 20 of his rich and famous friends, all of whom were to arrive by a private jet. as it turned out, addis was under the influence of drugs on this day and, as a result, all 20 of phillips's friends were killed. after this national tragedy, phillips and addis were sued for negligence by the estates of these people. in this case:

  following the agreement that was reached in the treaty of indian springs in 1825, chief william mcintosh lost his life. why did this happen

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

Why were colonist mad about the tea act if it actually lowered the price of tea