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• The following appeared in the annual report from the president of the National Brush Company.
  "In order to save money, we at the National Brush Company have decided to pay our employees for each brush they produce instead of for the time they spend producing brushes....
• The following appeared as part of a memo from the president of Automate, a company that manufactures automobiles.
  "It has come to my attention that Sparks, Inc., the manufacturing company that just moved into our state, is advertising job openings at salaries that are twice as high as those paid to our experienced assembly-line workers....
• The following appeared as part of a memo from the manager of an automobile manufacturing company.
  "Because the demand for our automobiles is expected to increase dramatically, we need to open a new manufacturing plant as soon as possible in order to continue to thrive....
• How many workers at Rocky Flats, the former nuclear weapon components plant in Golden, Colo.
  hould it take to change a light bulb? Sixteen--and that's no joke...
• The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a company that builds shopping malls throughout the country.
  "The surface of a section of Route 101, paved two years ago by McAdam Road Builders, is now badly cracked and marred by dangerous potholes....
• The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.
  "In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations....
• 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 vice president of a food-distribution company with food-storage warehouses in several cities.
  "Recently we signed a contract with The Fly-Away Pest-Control Company to provide pest-control services at our fast-food warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $...
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that makes breakfast cereals.
  "In a recent study, subjects who ate soybeans at least five times per week had significantly lower cholesterol levels than subjects who ate no soy products....