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juct u» urea* uua une sentence into two: “A neighbor found Mrs. Rocker in her van. PERIOD! She had been shot twice in the head and three times in the torso.” With minimal recasting, we have gained both clarity and action.
A year ago the Vero Beach (Fla.) Press-Journal carried a wire-service story about an appropriations bill in Congress: “The Senate bill chops away at scores of executive branch projects, including a federal study of swordfish mating to the chauffeurs of two government bureaucrats.”
That sentence should have been taken out and given four lashes with a typewriter ribbon, but let us try again: “The Senate bill chops away at scores of executive branch projects. PERIOD!
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