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• The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station.
  "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news....
• The following appeared in a memo from the manager of television station KICK.
  "A nationwide survey reveals that a sizeable majority of men would like to see additional sports programs on television....
• 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 is a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
  "As a local merchant, I wish to support the development of a ski resort in the state park north of our township....
• The following is from an editorial in the Midvale Observer, a local newspaper.
  "Ever since the 1950's when television sets began to appear in the average home, the rate of crimes committed by teenagers in the country of Alta has steadily increased....
• 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 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 in a memo from the owner of Green Thumb Gardening Center, a small business serving a suburban town.
  "There is evidence that consumers are becoming more and more interested in growing their own vegetables....
• Our congratulations go to a Burlington Vermont civilian employee of the local Army National Guard base.
  He recently received a substational cash award from our government for inventing a device for optical scanning....