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• The following appeared in a memo at the XYZ company.
  "When XYZ lays off employees, it pays Delany Personnel Firm to offer those employees assistance in creating resum....
• The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.
  "The librarians in our town's school system have reported that the number of trips that our students make to their school library on a voluntary basis has decreased significantly in recent years....
• The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a national newspaper.
  "Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in the United States is misleading....
• 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 is a memorandum written by the director of personnel to the president of the Cedar Corporation.
  "It would be a mistake to rehire the Good-Taste Company to supply the food in our employee cafeteria next year....
• The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Alta Manufacturing.
  "During the past year, Alta Manufacturing had thirty percent more on-the-job accidents than nearby Panoply Industries, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours....
• The following was taken from a guide for aspiring writers.
  "New writers usually cannot convince large, prestigious publishers that their work is marketable, so they must first publish with smaller, less well-known presses to establish a sales record....
• The following appeared in a newspaper article about law firms in the city of Megalopolis.
  "In Megalopolis, the number of law school graduates who went to work for large, corporate firms declined by 15 percent over the last three years, whereas an increasing number of graduates took jobs at small, general practice firms....
• 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....