Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. tension between the two sides escalated until june 1948, when the soviets blocked all western access to the capital. in this first real crisis of the cold war, the west was not going to be denied by the soviets. if the underlined word were replaced with the word "event,” the tone of the excerpt would be more resentful. more intellectual. less intense. less objective.

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