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• The following appeared in a corporate planning memo at ABC Cereal Company, the makers of Better Bran cereal.
  "Sales of Better Bran have declined in recent years, for reasons that management has now identified....
• The following appeared in a memo from the economic minister of the small country Paucia.
  "Using a newly developed variety of seed, farmers in our neighboring country Abundia produced 80 percent more rice last year than in any previous year....
• The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper.
  "The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago....
• The following appeared in a memo from the chief operating officer of the Presto Manufacturing Company.
  "Since orders for our major product increased by over 200 percent last quarter, we should promptly expand production by building a new manufacturing plant in Summit City....
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that builds and sells new homes in Steel City.
  "Over the past five years, the population of Steel City has increased by more than 20 percent, and family incomes in Steel City have risen much faster than the national average....
• The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper from a citizen of the state of Impecunia.
  "Two years ago our neighboring state, Lucria, began a state lottery to supplement tax revenues for education and public health....
• The following appeared in a letter to the Grandview City Council from a local business leader.
  "During last year's severe drought, when the water supply in the Grandview city reservoir fell to an extremely low level, the city council imposed much more rigid water-rationing rules....
• The following appeared in a newspaper published in the state of Celera.
  "Speed limits on our state's highways should be eliminated in order to increase our state's prosperity....
• The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a local Solano newspaper.
  "The Solano school district should do away with its music education programs....