Editing Standards
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Houston Chronicle
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St. Petersburg Times
San Jose Mercury News
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This project was the work of numerous editors who contributed
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Contact her for suggestions, questions or corrections.
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Spelling
Part 1
Choose the correct spelling of each word.
1. hemorrhage, hemmorhage
2. embarrass, embarass
3. consensus, concensus
4. drunkeness, drunkenness
5. sheriff, sherriff
6. privilege, privelege
7. fraudulant, fraudulent
8. restauranteur, restaurateur
9. accomodate, accommodate
10. liquefy, liquify
11. committment, commitment
12. harass, harrass
13. prerogative, perogative
14. alright, all right
15. inoculate, innoculate
16. seize, sieze
17. ecstasy, ecstacy
18. bellweather, bellwether
19. Caribbean, Carribean
20. parallel, paralell
21. weird, wierd
22. fairwell, farewell
23. adrress, address
24. achieve, acheive
25. manageable, managable
Answer key to Part 1, page 35
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Spelling
Part 2
Write the correct spelling of each word or name (some
may be correct; if so, write “correct”).
1. defendent
2. affadavit
3. calendar
4. dillettante
5. parenthises
6. chaffeur
7. sinusitus
8. batallion
9. judgement
10. occurred
11. subpeona
12. Phillippines
13. seperate
14. occasion
15. barbiturate
16. exhillarate
17. salacious
18. liaison
19. osteoporosis
20. Cincinnatti
Answer key to Part 2, page 35
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General Knowledge
Part 3 — Identification
Identify these acronyms:
1. NATO
2. NASA
3. ATM
4. NYSE
5. EPA
6. IRS
7. DEA
8. AFL-CIO
9. UNHCR
10. CDC
11. ATF
12. ACLU
13. DNC
14. HUD
15. EEOC
16. NAACP
17. GAO
18. NTSB
19. FEMA
20. OSHA
21. NOW
22. NRA
23. OPEC
24. RAM
25. WTO
Answer key to Part 3, page 36
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Part 4 — Identification
Identify these personalities in arts and
entertainment:
1. Toni Morrison
2. Selena
3. Frank Sinatra
4. Frank Capra
5. Herman Melville
6. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
7. Maya Angelou
8. Jodie Foster
9. Nat King Cole
10. Lauryn Hill
11. Leonard Bernstein
12. Sylvia Plath
13. J.D. Salinger
14. Garry Trudeau
15. Roberto Benigni
16. Spike Lee
17. Rita Moreno
18. Georgia O’Keeffe
19. Patsy Cline
20. Alfred Hitchcock
21. Billie Holiday
22. Salvador Dali
23. Octavio Paz
24. Theodore Geisel
25. Pearl Buck
Answer key to Part 4, page 36
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Part 5 — Identification
Identify these political figures (officeholders,
activists, national leaders):
1. Henry Shelton
2. Bruce Babbitt
3. David Satcher
4. Madeleine Albright
5. Maxine Waters
6. Dennis Hastert
7. Henry Hyde
8. Elizabeth Dole
9. Togo West
10. George W. Bush
11. Kweisi Mfume
12. William Rehnquist
13. Dianne Feinstein
14. Louis Freeh
15. Jesse Helms
16. Robert Rubin
17. Trent Lott
18. Bill Bradley
19. Martin Luther King Jr.
20. Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Answer key to Part 5, page 37
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Part 6 — Identification
Identify these international figures:
1. Tony Blair
2. Slobodan Milosevic
3. Saddam Hussein
4. Boris Yeltsin
5. Gerry Adams
6. Nelson Mandela
7. Benjamin Netanyahu
8. Osama bin Laden
9. King Abdullah
10. Jiang Zemin
11. Mikhail Gorbachev
12. Jacques Chirac
13. Yasser Arafat
14. Kofi Annan
15. Elie Wiesel
Answer key to Part 6, page 38
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Part 7 — Identification
Identify these figures in the sciences, math and
health:
1. Sigmund Freud
2. J. Robert Oppenheimer
3. Albert Einstein
4. Max K.E.L. Planck
5. Marie Curie
6. Thomas Edison
7. Louis Pasteur
8. George Washington Carver
9. Jonas Salk
10. Edmund Halley
11. Alexander Graham Bell
12. Albert Claude
13. Galileo Galilei
14. Jerome Lejeune
15. Charles Darwin
Answer key to Part 7, page 38
Part 8 — Identification
Identify the following sports figures:
1. Jackie Robinson
2. Steffi Graf
3. Arnold Palmer
4. Michael Jordan
5. Joe DiMaggio
6. Tiger Woods
7. Muhammad Ali
8. Jeff Gordon
9. Arthur Ashe
10. Katarina Witt
11. Mark McGwire
12. Jesse Owens
13. Willie Shoemaker
14. Pele
15. Florence Griffith Joyner
Answer key to Part 8, page 38
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Part 9
Historic dates:
1. What is the significance
of June 6, 1944?
2. What happened on July
4, 1776?
3. What is the significance
of April 14, 1865?
4. What happened Dec. 7,
1941?
5. What is the significance
of Nov. 22, 1963?
6. What happened on Aug.
9, 1974?
7. What is the significance
of Jan. 28, 1986?
8. What happened April 19,
1995?
9. What is the significance
of Aug.6 and Aug. 9,
1945?
10. What happened Feb. 20,
1962?
Answer key to Part 9, page 39
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Part 10 — General Knowledge and Current Affairs
1. In newspaper style, when
are months abbreviated?
2. Who wrote: “Tender is
the Night,”
“Moby Dick,”
“The Scarlett Letter,”
“Main Street,”
“Sister Carrie,” and
“The Last of the Mohicans” ?
3. What is Associated Press
style for the
Labour/Labor Party in Britain?
Who is its leader?
4. Who is the prime minister
of Canada?
5. Who is the U.S. secretary
of state?
6. Who is the chief justice
of the U.S. Supreme
Court?
7. Who succeeds the presidency
if both the president
and vice president should die in office?
8. How many members are
in the Senate?
The House of Representatives?
9. Is the lessee the one
who pays the rent or the one
who receives it?
10. Which is longer, a meter
or a yard?
11. What amendment to the
Constitution is designed to
guarantee a fair trial?
12. Name as many of the
seven dwarves as you can.
13. What is the significance
of June 6, 1944.
14. The battle of Gettysburg
was fought in 1777,
1812, 1848, 1863, 1898?
15. If a story contains
no names, it can/cannot be
libelous?
16. How many items are in
a baker’s dozen?
17. What does the term Third
World mean?
18. Name the three branches
of the U.S. government.
19. Who was Ernie Pyle?
20. From where are the Pulitzer
Prizes
administered/distributed?
21. What are blue laws?
22. What is a sacred cow
in newspaper parlance?
23. Describe what the prime
rate is.
24. What is libel?
25. What is gerrymandering?
26. Which is more serious,
a misdemeanor or a felony?
27. J. Paul Getty made his
money in what business?
28. List the capital cities
of _______________, New
York; , Oregon;
_____________, North Carolina;
_____________, Texas;
, Missouri?
29. What event triggered
the May 1992 riots in Los
Angeles?
30. Name at least three
scandals that have plagued
President Clinton’s administration.
31. Who was Anne Frank?
32. Name three prominent
people who have died of
AIDS.
What do AIDS and HIV stand for?
How is it spread?
33. Name the person who
wrote “Cannery Row,” “The
Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men.”
34. Name the site of the
infamous crackdown on
dissenters in China.
35. Who is Eric Rudolph?
36. These cities are the
capitals of what countries?
Amman
Buenos Aires
Vienna
Ottawa
Lisbon
Tehran
37. What is the Enola Gay?
38. What was Reconstruction?
39. Who is the founder of
Microsoft?
40. What is glasnost?
Answer key to Part 10, page 39
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Math
Part 11
Use a calculator to figure
the following. Round
percentage results to the nearest 0.1.
1. The budget grew from $725,000
last year to
$900,000 this year, an increase of ______
percent.
2. The number of passengers
using the airport
declined _____ percent, from 50.2 million in 1993 to
46.6 million in 1994.
3. The price fell exactly
60 percent last week, from
$31.50 to $_____.
4. The amendment requires
approval from at least
two-thirds of the 82-member state Senate, or at least
_____ votes.
5. The graduation rate rose
from 77 percent last year
to 84 percent this year, a gain of _____.
6. If a story said, “The
number of women in severely
reduced circumstances as a result of being displaced
as homemakers has increased fourfold in the past 15
years,” would a headline that said, “Displaced
homemaker rolls up 400%” be accurate? ____ Why?
__
7. There has been an increase
in state funding to
public libraries to $120 million, a fourfold increase
from the present $40 million. What’s wrong with these
figures?
8. The number of cases had
reached 74, and the death
toll had reached 20. What disturbed him most was the
mortality rate among those afflicted: almost 29
percent. What’s wrong with this sentence?
9. State policy once was
the juggernaut of school
consolidation; during the 1960s the number of
Minnesota school districts dropped a stunning 540
percent, from 2,410 to 446. What’s wrong with this
sentence?
10. CBS had a 6.2 rating/13
share, 1 percent higher
than the 6.1/14 from last year. What’s wrong with this
sentence?
Answer key to Part 11, page 41
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Editing
Part 12 — Paragraphs
Edit these paragraphs, which contain problems of fact
and require news judgment:
1. An 11-year-old boy fishing
from a railroad bridge
tried to outrun an oncoming freight train, but was
decapitated, authorities said.
2. A 2-year-old boy was
injured when he fell into
some hot ashes at a campfire during a family outing in the Withlacoochee
Forest.
Police were not releasing the name of the injured boy
because of his age.
3. When Brooksville police
Detective Earl Hannaway
arrived, the trembling dog was still alive. Steam
wafted from its burned body, the report stated.
However, it died within minutes, the report said.
4. Glenn Edward Sheridan,
14, was charged with grand
theft, and Jerome Michael Sullivan, also 14, was
charged with being an accessory after the fact. The
two took a Chevrolet belonging to Sheridan’s mother,
after having an extra set of keys made, said
Smithville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jon Powers.
5. The boy was electrocuted
as he climbed through the
branches of the tree while trying to rescue his cat.
He was listed in stable condition at Bayfront Medical
Center on Thursday.
6. A man who exposed himself
to three young people
while standing on a street corner last week has been arrested. Sean
Peter Benoit,
27, was charged with three counts of lewd and
lascivious behavior.
7. The 56-year-old Heppner,
who said he had just
retired from an influential job with the Defense
Department, said he talked with a high-powered lawyer
in Washington who thought the Indian Shores resident’s
case had a good chance in court.
8. Each morning — often just
as the sun is rising
over Southside — employees of the National Weather
Service station at Dunlap walk outside their building
and release a gas-filled balloon. Twelve hours after
that balloon goes up — at midnight — another balloon
will be released.
9. Gov. Bob Smith looked
far and wide for the perfect
new hostess for the governor’s mansion — and finally found her sleeping
in
the same bed with his top political adviser.
10. Althea Andersen might
be the only streetwalker
whose skirt goes below her knees. A librarian for 40
years, she has gray hair, a straw hat and a sweet
sales pitch. With her help, the North Greenwood branch
of the Smithville Public Library is taking its job
into new territory — door to door.
11. The Chambers of Commerce
of Dakota, Lucas
Heights, Greenville and Westchester will join to
sponsor a women’s symposium and trade show — yes,
apparently the two can be combined — on Salt Lake
Beach Tuesday.
12. A 35-year-old Lawrence man
was arrested Thursday
and charged with sexually abusing his 6-month-old
daughter. Henry P. Henry, of 242 Sunshine Lane, was
booked into the Lawrence County Jail, where he was
being held in lieu of $15,000 bail.
13. Deaf, dumb, illiterate, unable
to communicate and
possibly retarded, Frank Hall sits in the West Chester
Detention Center while others ponder his fate.
14. After President Dwight T. Eisenhower took
office,
the Democrats remained in control of the White House for the rest of
the 50s.
15. The final nationally-televised
debate in the west
European country was viewed by a 22-million member
audience nationwide, more than half of the 45 million
registered voters.
16. The plan to hire a pompom-waving
squad to cheer
on the team was rejected by the committee, chairperson
Emily Morgan said. A well-dressed grandmother of four,
Morgan said the panel and the school board will
continue to evaluate its options.
17. When the accused killer
entered the jail, the
sheriff was upset. Their is nowhere except up that
this scum can go now,” the lawman said.
18. The 11 children who won
blue ribbons were beaming
as their names were called by the teacher, who was
handling out the awards. “Let’s give a round of
applause for Jason, Adam, Cheryl, Melissa, Mindy,
Jennifer, Tiffany, Bobby Joe, Sue Ellen and Hortense,”
the teacher said.
19. Police confiscated almost
10 pounds of cocaine
after firemen extinguished the blaze, Police Chief Tom
Sullivan declared. He added, We recovered at least 8
kilograms. That’s worth more than $40 billion on the
street.”
20. After a 13-year separation,
Angel and her father,
Daniel Lawson, hugged ecstatically during a
long-awaited reunion. Mr. Lawson, 62, last saw his
daughter the night she was born, a rainy night of
sorrow in 1982.
Answer key to Part 12, page 42
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Part 13 — Sentences
Edit these sentences, keeping
in mind spelling,
punctuation, grammar, style, word usage and wordiness,
as well as issues of fairness and libel.
1. I don’t know how to even
begin editing these
sentences.
2. The general concensus
of opinion was that the
house was the most unique in its class.
3. Lisa has a myriad of books,
but never seems to
take the time to read then.
4. The asisstant who ordinarily
is highly efficient,
was all thumbs in todays experiment.
5. Having evaluated the situation
and the impact of
the new regulations upon the state’s current
educational system, it is obvious that the voters must
convince the legislature in Peoria to adopt reforms.
6. Volkswagon is only having
trouble with one of
there 1983 models.
7. The copy editor’s will meet today.
8. The two bank robbery suspects
fled and have not
been caught.
9. When only a small boy,
my father took me with him
to Denver.
10. A new graduate course
in comunications is being
introduced this semmester.
11. He wanted to know if the criteria was valid.
12. Seven famous astronauts returned to earth today.
13. Swinging from the utility
poll, they saw the
remnant of a kit’s tale and some
tattered paper.
14. I feel nauseous when
I think of the momento I
lost.
15. Rudolph Nuryev had danced
for years before
succumbing to the urge to direct.
16. Floodwaters totaly destroyed
the town despite the
fact that their was a floodwall completely surrounding
it.
17. She was diagnosed with cancer in June.
18. It looks like Juston
will be hung for murder
despite his appealing to the governor.
19. There were three people
in the car when it
collided with a tree, but none were injured.
20. Despite averse wether
conditions, the first
annual cookout begins Sunday night
at 7 p.m.
21. The womens’ group cancelled the forum.
22. Geoffrey want to go, but changed his mind.
23. Only a woman who’s values
are corrupt could like
that kind of men?
24. Prior to the meeting,
the premiere inferred that
he would fire the Secretary of State.
25. Sir that’s a high-quality
stereo at a bargain
basement price.
26. The late Mayor Joe Blow
was murdered at about
11:15 p.m. Thursday night. The trial of the suspect in
the case, John Smith, is scheduled for February 28,
1990.
27. She said she was too
young to remember the Viet
Nam war.
28. Golly-gee, I think I’ll go get some jello.
29. She was strangled to
death in her bed.
30. The coach feels the
team lost due to its beat
halfback having his leg broke in the first quarter.
31. His brother, whom he
said was a alcaholic, threw
himself in front of a bus.
32. But, actually, all they
are concerned about this
year is Thad making a smooth transition to the
major-league team.
33. Fernando is respectful of Lynn’s contributions.
34. The oder of onion still
persists because niether
of you have taken out the garbage.
35. Amanda said the volume
of noise caused by the
operation of the truck kept her awake during the
nighttime.
36. The people have a right
to know everything about
whoever they elect. If they vote for someone whom
political leaders say is unreliable, then they deserve
what they get.
37. The letter did not signifacantly
effect the
outcome.
38. In the pre-dawn light,
he started pouring over
the old records.
39. Travelling across the
U.S., it’s vastness
effected her.
40. The Vikings have less
players but they all blok
like they should.
41. In Texas schools, the
stress on grammer is
miniscule.
42. If a deer laid down in
the deep snow, a person
would have to get closer than ten feet prior to seeing
it.
43. The principle reason
for the principals firing
was because he behaved wierd.
44. Addie found a large number
of people sitting
around.
45. Seattle police have arrested
a 25-year-old
drifter for killing an East Side waitress. Charges
will be filed later.
46. According to police records,
the suspect was
driven by taxi to the Texas Theater at 231 W.
Jefferson Blvd. on November 21, 1963, whereupon he
fled without paying his fare.
47. For a period of 10 days,
workmen labored in
access of 12 hours daily to complete the new building.
48. The advance planning
was completed by Paul on
Monday.
49. The story about the deaths
of Elvis Pressley,
Bing Crosbee and Groucho Marks were written on April
Fool’s Day.
50. Leslie dropped by the
automatic teller to
withdraw $10 on her way to work.
51. She was the wife of the
late John Smith who died
in 1976.
52. The CIA was interested
in the activities of one
man: Copy editor Mike Jones.
53. Everyone of the clues,
the officer said, led to
the apprehensions of the perpetrators.
54. Have you got a reciept
for clam chowder soup
which won't make me nauseous.
55. Attorney General Sam
Johnson is committed to
investigating and prosecuting insurance fraud from
large-scale ripoffs to small nickle-and-dime claims.
56. The appelate court remaned the case back to
Sewanee county court.
57. Janie made reservations for Joe and I.
58. Its likely the body will
lay in state til
Wednesday.
59. Jean Smith said she doesn’t
understand the
state’s delay and that her daughter needs special
education from trained teachers, expert medical care
at home and is ready for physical therapy.
60. Written on expensive
stationary, Jones tendered
his resignation after being
confronted with the evidence.
61. Mother Theresa was infamous
for helping the
needy.
62. The group made the decision to leave early.
63. The enormity of the house
is breathtaking, if you
stand in the middle of the living room the fireplace
is further than 10 yards away.
64. She wants to put a stop
to the confusion prior to
the end of the meeting.
65. Susie did poor on the
test, and afterward she
felt badly.
66. Pam literally jumped
through the roof when we
surprised her.
67. According to police the
self-confessed killer
lead them to the body.
68. Sick with the flu, the
kleenex was Gina’s best
friend.
69. Kelly, Nancy and Cindy
are all really different
than each other, but still get along good.
70. The dress’s are on sale today.
71. Who do you wish to see?
72. Rush-hour traffic to Chicago is grueling.
73. Jane is going to enform
the persons in the
imediate vicinity of the leak to
evacuate.
74. For awhile after the
organization’s leaders
learned what had transpired, they were speechless.
Hopefully, they will recover from their amazement
soon.
75. Texas is the second-biggest
state in the
continental U.S.
76. Who shall I give the book to?
77. I’m going to give the
band-aid to him,
irregardless of whether he needs it.
78. Janet expressed her willingness
to do minor
tinkering with the contract offer.
79. At the present time,
she has all of the children
with the exception of Anne.
80. The daylong crisis left
every editor feeling
whipped, beaten, and worn to a frazzle.
81. She doesn’t like Hank staying out late.
82. John Jones, a good samaritan,
is the man that
helped me.
83. The hospital is located
at the corner of Seventh
Avenue and 14th Street.
84. This team, comprised
of seven all-stars is
certanly different than the team of a couple years
ago.
85. The company’s workforce
filed a class-action
lawsuit.
86. Some arrangements can
be made for pretax
deductions.
87. We bought the house from
Ebby Halliday, who had
been a realtor for as long as most area residents
could remember.
88. He ran out of the room
like he had heard someone
yell “Fire!”
89. Georgia citizens would
pay $64 for a drivers
license under the proposal.
90. The president looked
happily as he took the oath
of office yesterday.
91. A good firemen learns
to decsend down the poll
radiply.
92. Tom is in the process of moving downtown.
93. In view of the fact that
the restaurant is no
longer excepting reservations, we can not eat their.
94. The editors were in attendance
at the final
meeting.
95. I was late to work due
to car trouble.
96. Passover is a jewish holy day.
97. There were lyons on either side of the door.
98. Hurricane Alex caused
the destruction of many
homes.
99. The Salvation army is a private agency.
100. Using the word “editor”
give:
a. The plural possessive
b. The plural
c. The singular possessive
Answer key to Part 13, page 43
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Headine Writing
Part 14
1. Write a two-line, 18- to 22-count headline.
WASHINGTON — A compromise
that would loosen flight
restrictions at Dallas Love Field received chilly
receptions Wednesday from airlines and one opponent of
the current limits.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Dole proposed Tuesday
that airlines be allowed to fly from Love Field to any
other city as long as the flights land at least once
in Texas or four contiguous states.
That proposal would change
the Wright amendment, a
federal law that since 1979 has not permitted flights
from Love Field to go beyond Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Dole withdrew his proposal
when Sens. Phil Gramm and
Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and others hustled to stop it —
but served notice he will continue pushing to change
the Wright amendment this fall.
Only Dallas-based Southwest
Airlines Co., which tends
to have lower fares than its competitors, uses Love
Field. Cities and states just beyond the Wright
amendment borders, including Wichita, Kan., and
Memphis, Tenn., have pushed hard to repeal the limits
so they could attract Southwest.
Southwest conceded in a
statement that repeal of the
amendment has the potential of “creating two competing
hub airports in the metroplex through dividing
long-haul, feed passenger traffic between the two
airports.”
It further stated that it
is “amenable to any
modification of the Wright Amendment that benefits its
customers and is acceptable to all of the concerned
parties.”
American Airlines Inc.,
which has fought vigorously
against any attempt to change the Wright amendment,
said Wednesday that Sen. Dole’s compromise was no
compromise at all.
“It is not a minor change,
American associate general
counsel David A. Schwarte said. “What you really do is
open up the entire United States and much of Central
America and Mexico to service out of Love Field on a
one-stop basis with no carrier even building a new
hub.”
From Love Field, Southwest
could reach any airport in
its system with a single intermediary stop, and
Continental Airlines Inc. could cover most of its
system with a shop at its Houston hub, Mr. Schwarte
said.
American previously has
said it would split its
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport hub and put
some 200 flights at Love Field, an action it said
would reduce
service to its customers.
“This is no gift,” Mr. Schwarte
said of Sen. Dole’s
proposal. “It is a Trojan horse.”
Delta Air Lines Inc. spokesman
Clay McConnell said
Delta, which is second in size at D/FW behind
American, doesn’t want to see the Wright amendment
altered either. The change would disrupt Delta’s
existing hub operations.
“We feel the way the Wright
amendment currently reads
and operates is the way it ought to stay,” he said.
David Rucker, president
of Associated Conservatives
of Texas and a fervent opponent of the Wright
amendment, criticized Sen. Dole’s proposal for not
going far enough.
“First of all, I consider
it a bad law, and a bad law
changed in a compromise manner is still a bad law. In
my opinion, the Wright amendment has outlived its
usefulness and should be repealed in its entirety.
Anything less would be to continue a bad law,” said
Mr. Rucker, a member of the Coalition for the Repeal
of the Wright Amendment.
The issue comes up for a
hearing before a House
Aviation subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
At present, Southwest is
not supposed to issue a
single ticket that will take a passenger from Dallas
to any point beyond the four adjoining states.
Travelers going beyond Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Louisiana must buy two tickets — one to the
intermediate airport and a second ticket from the
intermediate airport to their final destination. They
also must collect their bags from the first flight and
recheck them for the second flight.
2. Write a two-line, 18- to 22-count headline.
A Peoria semiconductor firm
has squeezed the
processing of full-motion video onto a single
microchip, a development that may smooth the way for
increased use of television images on personal
computer screens.
Pixel Semiconductor Inc.,
a subsidiary of
St.Louis-based Cumulus Logic Inc., plans to unveil a
video processing chip, which supplants as many as six
separate chips, during the Comdex computer industry
trade show in October.
The chip, called a Video
Window Generator, will allow
television images to appear on a wide variety of
desktop machines, including standard personal
computers, Apple Macintosh computers and workstations,
Pixel president Jim Fontaine said.
The chip uses signals from
either U.S. or European
television standards that have been converted into a
data stream that can be displayed on computer screens.
The data can be resized at will, allowing the pictures
to appear in “windows” on personal computer or
workstation screens. To enlarge or reduce the size of
the image, a user will simply change the size of the
window, using a “mouse”-type pointing device.
Demand for such capabilities
is increasing, as
personal computers become display devices for
teleconferences and the use of numbers, text and
simple graphics on screens gives way to “multimedia”
uses that incorporate video and audio as well.
The Pixel chip can process
video at the equivalent of
250 million instructions a second, a “workhorse”
speed, Mr. Fontaine said. The ability to put critical
image-grabbing and processing tasks on a single chip
reduces the circuitry and board space needed to
provide personal computers with video capabilities.
In effect, a single-chip
video processor could become
a simple addition to a personal computer, in the
fashion that math co-processors now are plugged in to
speed up numeric calculations, said Gerry Kaufhold, an
analyst at In-Stat Inc. in Tempe, Ariz.
If Pixel’s product proves
to provide such compact
video processing, he figures Pixel could move a
half-million units of the device in its first year and
a million in its second.
“The sky’s the limit after
that,” said Mr. Kaufhold.
He noted, however, that while Pixel’s part is
potentially impressive, the product will face stiff
competition from electronics giants that include
Motorola Inc. and Philips N.V. Those firms currently
provide sets of chips that convert television images
into digits that computers can manipulate.
The Pixel parts start at
$55 apiece, in small
quantities.
Cumulus, based in St. Louis,
Mo., bought controlling
interest in Pixel from Peoria-based Visual Information
Technologies Inc. in June.
3. Write a two-line, 13- to 16-count headline.
WASHINGTON — The TV industry
abruptly broke off
negotiations Thursday on strengthening five-month-old
program ratings after Vice President Al Gore endorsed
labeling shows for violent content.
Accusing Gore of “unwarranted
intervention in the
process,” the major broadcasting, cable and motion
picture trade associations took the action as the
industry inched closer to adding codes for violence,
sex and crude language.
Earlier in the day, breaking
the administration’s
silence on possible changes in the ratings that took
effect Jan. 1, Gore declared, “We need a ‘V’ to tell
us when our youngest children could be exposed to
violence.”
4. Write a hammer head of one to five words, along
with a deck of four to seven words:
Hold the french fries — the
monster chip is on its
way.
Genetic engineers in Germany
have created a potato
big enough to feed a family of six. The potatoes were
created almost accidentally as part of a program to
investigate the breakdown of sugars in the tubers.
Although the world’s biggest
potato weighed in at 3.2
kilograms — without any genetic tinkering — the
engineered potatoes were on average two or three times
as large as the normal ones.
“The largest weighed 2 kilograms,”
says Lothar
Willmitzer, head of the research team at the Max
Planck Institute.
Willmitzer and his colleagues
say they created the
huge vegetables by transferring a yeast gene into the
potato plants. The yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is
better known for its role in brewing and baking.
Answer key to Part 14, page 46
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Story Editing
Part 15
Edit these stories, keeping in mind spelling,
punctuation, grammar, style and wordiness, as well as
issues of fairness and libel. Paragraphs are numbered
to the left.
1.
JAMESVILLE — A Jamesville
man was being held Thursday
on a $50,000 bond in Pocono jail after the car he was
driving struck another vehicle, killing a
passenger.
The passenger, Mildred Lenzi,
76, of East Bay,
Washington, died at County Hospital after being flown
there by helicopter. Two Burlington residents were
seriously injured in the Wednesday night accident on
East Main Street.
Jamesville police said Lenzi
was a passenger in a car
driven by Robert Bates, 60, of hamilton Avenue in
Burlington, who also was taken to County Hospital.
He was listed in serious
condition late Thursday, a
hospital spokeswoman said. Bates’ wife, Edna, 80, was
taken to Charlotte Amalie Hospital where she also was
listed in serious condition.
No motor vehicle charges
had been flied against
Stephen J. DiMaria, 28, of Clearview Avenue though an
investigation was continuing. DiMaria was charged with
breach of peace for a domestic incident that occurred
Wednesday and was being held in Pocono jail in lieu of
$50,000 bond.
Police said DiMaria’s car
was traveling east on East
Main Street when it entered the westbound lane and
struck Bates’ car. Both DiMaria and a passenger in his
car, Paula Dayfield, 30, of Greenridge Road, initially
refused medical treatment. But DiMaria was later
treated and released from Charlotte Amalie Hospital,
police
said.
The traffic fatality is
the second in two days in the
city. On Tuesday, a 23-year-old Harwinton man was
killed after his motorcycle struck a telephone pole on
Harwinton Road, near East Main Street.
Answer key to Part 15, story 1, page 48
2.
Molly Jones was relieved
to learn Monday night that
her missing husband was safe.
But she was not happy that
she was going to have to
pick him up downtown because his car was the first one
confiscated under a new police program to discourage
the customers of prostitutes.
“I guess I’m glad to know
he’s alive,” Jones, 30,
said of her husband, Desmond, 33, who committed an act
of gross indecency with a woman who had 14 previous
arrests for prostitution.
“Wait until I pick him up,”
Jones said. I’ll wring
his neck.”
The new program was announced
Monday by Police Chief
John Darm. He said the new policy came about because
the community people demanded it,” referring to the
south side neighborhood that for years has seen large
numbers of Hispanic prostitutes.
Jones, a father of three
girls who attend Watson
Elementary School, was arrested about 8:10 p.m. Monday
after an undercover police officer saw him flag down
Anna Stroll, park his car and engage in an act of
indecent and immoral conduct” with Stroll.
“I’m shocked,” his wife
said. My husband is not the
type. He doesn’t drink. He never misses a day of
work.”
At a news conference about
the new cost-effective
program, Darm, a Tom Cruise look-alike, smoothly
brushed aside a question about police entrapment.
Those arrested are flagrant violators, according to
court documents. Desmond Jones faces a maximum of a
month in jail.
Another police official,
gesturing toward Jones, who
was waiting on a bench for his wife to arrive, said,
“This guy ought to know better than to pick up a
hitchhiker.”
Answer key to Part 15, story 2, page 48
3.
The mournful sound of Taps
wafted over Calvary
Cemetery in Lewistown on Monday as family, friends and
thousands of law enforcement officers paid their last
respects to state trooper Timothy Bowe, gunned down
last weekend in rural Chisago County.
“I’ve played at every officers’
funeral since Jerry
Haaf,” said Kevin Torgerson, an Edgerton County
sheriff’s deputy. “It’s very tough. I come to the
cemetery early. It takes a while to suck it up and
play.”
Earlier, troopers wept in
their pews as Col. Mike
Chabries, chief of the state patrol, posthumously
awarded Bowe its first medal of honor and Gov. Jim
Harley eulogized Bowe as a hero.
Nearly 5,000 people, including
4,000 law enforcement
officers from throughout the metropolitan area and
around the state, jammed Epiphany Catholic Church and
spilled onto the grounds around it, making the funeral
the largest in the history of Blazing Rapids, fire
marshall John Piper said.
The seven-mile automobile
procession up Hwy. 10 took
nearly an hour and a half, and hundreds of people
stood along roads or on overpasses, some holding signs
or waving flags, looking to get a glimpse of the 792
squad cars, many of them with flashing lights on,
rolling slowly up the highway towards the cemetery.
“Only in Wyoming,” said
trooper Kevin Guggisberg,
overwhelmed by the
support.
It was a somber day.
Cpl. Dennis O’Brien, Bowe’s
patrol partner, speaking
at the funeral, described how he arrived at Bowe’s
side seconds after he was shot early Saturday morning
about 1 a.m. While he held up two IV bags in each
hand, trooper Bruce Brynell talked to Bowe, reciting
the names of his wife, Denise, and their children, and
the names of the patrol’s special response team to
which Bowe belonged.
After each name, Bowe squeezed
Brynell’s hand.
“I never once saw the sparkle
leave his eyes,”
O’Brien said. “The last time I saw him they were
loading him into the helicopter.” Bowe was pronounced
dead at Edgerton County Medical Center about an hour
later.
The same day that Bowe was
buried in Lewistown, a
funeral was held on the Earth Reservation for Joseph
Lindstrom, 26, who shot and killed Bowe, and then put
his handgun to his head and killed himself.
Bowe and Chisago County
deputies were responding to a
report that Lindstrom had shot and wounded a man
outside a house in Fish Lake Twp., near Leesville. In
the darkness, Bowe and several deputies approached the
car where Lindstrom was lying. He suddenly sat up and
fired at Bowe, hitting him in the chin with the first
shot. Deputies returned fire, but a coronor’s report
said Lindstrom died from a gunshot from his own 40
caliber handgun. Police said Bowe and others in the
house had been using drugs before the shooting, and
family members said Lindstrom had been hallucinating.
The Church of the Epiphany
seats about 1,800, but
John Awalt, the church building superintendent,
estimated that 2,500 to 2,800 people had managed to
get inside, lining the aisles, filling the foyer and
packing an adjoining chapel and several meeting rooms
where the sound was piped in.
Family members and close
friends filled the front
rows on one side, the pallbearers and the governor’s
enteroage on the other. Hundreds of state troopers
were inside the church, along with members of Chisago
County sheriff’s office who were on the scene of the
night of shootout. Bowe had been a deputy in the
department before he joined the patrol in 1982.
Outside, about 2,000 more
law enforcement officers
stood on the church grounds, listening to the service
piped out on loudspeakers. State police from 12
states, as well as officers from Canada including the
Canadian Mounties, attended the funeral
The temperature was in the
80s and the air was
sultry. Six officers fainted in the hot sun and were
treated by paramedics, though none of the cases was
serious, said Cathy Clark, spokeswoman for the
spokeswoman for the Department of Public Safety.
Inside the church, State
Patrol officers participated
in the service, some of them distributing the wafers
for the comunion.
Outside, they talked of
a remarkably dedicated man.
Cpl. Pat McArdle recalls
that the last time he saw
Bowe was last summer, when he came upon a traffic
accident. Boe, wearing a suit, got out and began
directing traffic while the government helped the
injured.
“That’s the kind of guy
he was,” McArdle said. “He
wasn’t required to stop at the crash. But he did his
job as a trooper.”
It was a time for law enforcement
officers to
confront and consider their own
mortaility.
Answer key to Part 15, story 3, page 50
4.
Former boxing champion Charles
Johannon was jailed
without bail in Lucastown yesterday, charged with
contempt of court in connnection with a child-support
case, a jail official said yesterday.
Jail records show that Johnannon,
36, a Fort Smith
citizen who now lives in Thomasville, owes $4,500 in
back child support, said Jim Ewell, a spokesman for
the South County Sherrif’s Department.
The court has ordered Johannon
to pay the debt to
Sharon Clease of Fort Smith, who said Johannon is the
father of her 4-year-old son, Demond.
The judge told Mr. Johannan
that he was here today to
get his punishment,” said Gleason, who said she
attended the hearing in a Lucastown family courtroom.
(The judge) confined him to 180 days in prison. Then
he was handcuffed in the courtroom and taken away.”,
Ewell could not confirm
the length of Johannon’s
sentence.
Clease said she was introduced
to Johannon, a former
welterweight and junior middleweight champion, by one
of the boxer’s friends in September 1991. Clease said
she became pregnant during a brief relationship and a
paternity test proved that Johannon was the father.
Shortly after Demond’s birth,
Clease said she went to
court asking for child support from Johannon. She said
he was ordered to make monthly child support payments.
She said Curry began making
the payments but stopped
and she has sought help from the courts to collect the
money.
Johannon, a York High School
graduate and Golden
Gloves star, would have been a U.S. welterweight
contender in the 1980 Moscow Olympics had President
Jimmy Carter not ordered a boycott by the U.S. team.
Johannon fought
professionally from 1980 until he retired in June
1991, winning world championships twice. He earned an
estimated $5 million during his pro career.
In January Johannon was
acquitted by a Detriot jury
of a drug-conspiracy charge. He said the 10-month
ordeal drained him financially and emotionally.
A woman who answered the
phone at Johannon's home
last night hung up when asked for information.
Answer key to Part 15, story 4, page 51
5.
MARYVILLE — Fire chief Robert
Rabyt and Police Chief
Bart Kosienski said Monday that proposed layoffs in
their departments could threaten the safety of city
residents.
“Less is going to mean less
service,” Raby said. “The
community will change. People’s needs for basic
security will not be met”
Citing the refusal of city
unions to consider wage
concessions, City Manager John Aldi on Friday proposed
eliminating 126 jobs, an increase of 24 positions from
his initial budget plan.
The fire and police department
would be hardest hit
of city agencies; 33 firefighters and one clerical
workers’ job would be lost, while police would lose 9
officers.
“That’s mighty white of
them, isn’t it? I understand
the plight of the city, but there’s a safety issue at
risk here,” Koseinski said Monday.
Brandolini, president of
the Maryville Coaltion of
Muncipal Employees, said city employees should not
have to take the brunt of the city council’s refusal
to accept Aldi’s original budget proposal, which calls
for a 1.2 percent increase.
Brandolini said city employees
have done a lot to
help save the city money. In the current fiscal year,
for example, they gave up a week’s pay, saving
$750,000. Under the direction of Brandolini, the
city’s purchasing agent, the city also saved $400,000
in medical benefits to employees.
“We have changed how we
paid for it, from a
percentage of claims to cost per person, which is
cheaper,’ Brandolini said.
City officials, however,
are firm in their wish to
have a no-growth budget.
Although the fire and police
departments, “are the
backbone of any good community,” Mayor Thomas D’Agostino said Monday,
concessions such as
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Spelling
Answers — Part 1, page 2
Choose the correct spelling of each word.
1. hemorrhage
2. embarrass
3. consensus
4. drunkenness
5. sheriff
6. privilege
7. fraudulent
8. restaurateur
9. accommodate
10. liquefy
11. commitment
12. harass
13. prerogative
14. all right
15. inoculate
16. seize
17. ecstasy
18. bellwether
19. Caribbean
20. parallel
21. weird
22. farewell
23. address
24. achieve
25. manageable
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Answers — Part 2, page 2
Write the correct spelling of each word or name (some
may be correct;
if so, write “correct”).
1. defendant
2. affidavit
3. correct
4. dilettante
5. parentheses
6. chauffeur
7. sinusitis
8. battalion
9. judgment
10. correct
11. subpoena
12. Philippines
13. separate
14. correct
15. correct
16. exhilarate
17. correct
18. correct
19. correct
20. Cincinnati
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General Knowledge
Answers — Part 3 — Identification, page 3
Identify these acronyms and initialisms:
1. North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
2. National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
3. automated-teller machine
4. New York Stock Exchange
5. Environmental Protection
Agency
6. Internal Revenue Service
7. Drug Enforcement Administration
8. American Federation of
Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations
9. United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees
10. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
11. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms
12. American Civil Liberties
Union
13. Democratic National
Committee
14. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
15. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
16. National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People
17. General Accounting Office
18. National Transportation
Safety Board
19. Federal Emergency Management
Agency
20. Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
21. National Organization
for Women
22. National Rifle Association
23. Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries
24. random access memory
25. World Trade Organization
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Answers — Part 4 — Identification, pages 3-4
Identify these personalities in arts and
entertainment:
1. Pulitzer-Prize winning
author; “Song of Solomon,”
“Beloved.”
2. Female Tejano singer
slain by member of her
entourage.
3. Actor, singer (primarily
’40s, ’50s, ’60s.; won
Academy Award for part in “From Here to Eternity.”
Died 1998.
4. Filmmaker; “Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington,” “It’s A
Wonderful Life.”
5. Author; “Moby Dick.”
6. French Impressionist
artist.
7. Poet, author; “I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
8. Actress, director; “Silence
of the Lambs,” “Little
Man Tate.”
9. Deceased bandleader and
singer; “Mona Lisa,” “When
I Fall in Love.”
10. Rap, R&B singer
(Grammy winner at 1999 Grammys).
11. Composer; “On the Town,”
“West Side Story.”
12. Author; “The Bell Jar”,
committed suicide 1963.
13. Reclusive author of
“Catcher in the Rye.”
14. Cartoonist; “Doonesbury.”
15. Italian actor, filmmaker;
won Academy Awards for
“Life Is Beautiful.”
16. African-American filmmaker;
“Do the Right Thing.”
17. Singer, actress; “West
Side Story,” “Carnal
Knowledge.”
18. One of the founders
of Modernism; known for
paintings of flowers, western terrain.
19. Country singer; “Sweet
Dreams,” died in plane
crash in 1963.
20. Filmmaker; “The Birds,”
“North By Northwest,”
“The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
21. Jazz vocalist; autobiography
“Lady Sings the
Blues.”
22. Leader of Surrealist
movement; “Persistence of
Memory,” one of best-known works.
23. Mexican author who won
the Nobel literature prize
in 1990.
24. Otherwise known as Dr.
Seuss; author of “Cat in
the Hat.”
25. Author; “The Good Earth,”
won Pulitzer and Nobel
prizes.
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Answers — Part 5 — Identification, page 4
Identify these political figures (officeholders,
activists, national leaders):
1. Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
2. Secretary of the Interior.
3. U.S. Surgeon General.
4. Secretary of state.
5. Democratic congresswoman
from California.
6. Illinois congressman,
speaker of the House
(Republican).
7. Illinois congressman,
chairman of Judiciary
Committee (Republican).
8. Former head of Red Cross,
candidate for GOP
presidential nomination in 2000 before dropping out of
race.
9. Secretary of Veterans
Affairs.
10. Texas governor, running
for GOP presidential
nomination in 2000.
11. President of the NAACP.
12. Chief justice of the
United States, presided over
President Clinton’s impeachment trial.
13. Senator from California.
14. FBI director.
15. Republican senator from
North Carolina.
16. Secretary of the Treasury.
17. Senate majority leader
(Republican).
18. Former Democratic senator,
running for Democratic
presidential nomination in 2000.
19. Minister, 1960s civil-rights
activist, slain in
1968.
20. Republican senator from
Colorado, American Indian
activist.
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Answers — Part 6 — Identification, page 5
Identify these international figures:
1. British prime minister.
2. President of Yugoslavia.
3. President of Iraq.
4. Former president of Russia;
resigned New Year’s
Eve 1999.
5. Sinn Fein leader.
6. Former president of South
Africa.
7. Israeli prime minister.
8. Suspected terrorist,
wanted in U.S. embassy
bombings in Africa.
9. King of Jordan.
10. President of China.
11. Former Soviet president.
12. Prime minister of France.
13. Palestinian leader.
14. U.N. secretary-general.
15. Nobel Peace Prize winner,
Holocaust survivor.
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Answers — Part 7 — Identification, page 5
Identify these figures in the sciences, math and
health:
1. Austrian psychiatrist,
founder of psychoanalysis
2. physicist, director of
Los Alamos during
development of the atomic bomb
3. theoretical physicist,
known for formulation of
relativity theory
4. physicist, originated
and developed quantum theory
5. physical chemist known
for work on radium and its
compounds
6. inventor, held more than
1,000 patents, including
one for the incandescent electric lamp
7. chemist, originated process
of pasteurization
8. botanist, chemist and
educator
9. developed the first successful
polio vaccine
10. astronomer, predicted
periodic reappearance of
comet
11. inventor, first to patent
the telephone
12. a founder of modern
cell biology
13. astronomer, physicist,
a founder of the
experimental method
14. discovered the cause
of Down syndrome
15. established theory of
organic evolution
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Answers — Part 8 — Identification, page 6
Identify the following sports figures:
1. Black player who broke
baseball’s color barrier
with Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947; MVP, 1949.
2. Female German tennis
player, won Grand Slam in
1988.
3. Golf player, golf's first
$1 million winner.
4. Former basketball player
for UNC Tar Heels,
Chicago Bulls.
5. N.Y. Yankees outfielder,
died 1999 (side note,
married to Marilyn Monroe).
6. African-American golfer,
only golfer to win three
consecutive Amateur titles.
7. Three-time heavyweight
boxing champion.
8. NASCAR driver, Winston
Cup champion.
9. Tennis player, won Wimbledon,
U.S. singles (died
of AIDS).
10. German figure skater
(won Gold medal 1984, 1988).
11. St. Louis Cardinals player
who had 70 home runs
in 1998 season.
12. Track and field star,
won four Olympic Gold
medals in 1936.
13. Jockey rode four Kentucky
Derby and five Belmont
Stakes winners.
14. Brazilian soccer star,
scored 1,281 goals in
22-year career.
15. Sprinter won three Gold
medals at 1988 Olympics,
died 1998.
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Answers — Part 9 — Historic Dates, page 6
Historic dates:
1. Allied invasion, D-Day,
in Normandy, France,
during World War II.
2. Declaration of Independence
was approved.
3. President Lincoln was
assassinated by John Wilkes
Booth in Ford’s Theater.
4. Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii.
5. President Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas.
6. President Nixon resigned.
7. The space shuttle Challenger
exploded after
liftoff, killing 6 crew members and teacher Christa
McAuliffe.
8. The Oklahoma City bombing.
168 killed.
9. Aug. 6 — Atomic bomb
dropped on Hiroshima; Aug. 9
— bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
10. Lt. Col. John H. Glenn
Jr. became the first
American in orbit when he circled Earth three times in
the Mercury capsule, Friendship 7.
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Answers — Part 10 — General Knowledge and Current
Affairs, page 7
1. Months are abbreviated
only when used with the
date or the date and year.
2. “Tender is the Night,”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Moby Dick,” — Herman Melville.
“The Scarlett Letter,” — Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“Main Street,” — Sinclair Lewis.
“Sister Carrie,” — Theodore Dreiser.
“The Last of the Mohicans” — James Fenimore Cooper.
3. Labor Party; Tony Blair.
4. Jean Chretien.
5. Madeleine Albright.
6. Chief Justice William
Renquist.
7. The speaker of the house;
Dennis Hastert,
R-Illinois.
8. Senate — 100 members;
House of Representatives —
435 members.
9. The lessee is the one
who pays the rent.
10. meter.
11. The Sixth Amendment
is designed to guarantee a
fair trial.
12. Doc, Dopey, Grumpy,
Sneezy, Happy, Sleepy,
Bashful.
13. June 6, 1944, is D-Day.
14. The battle of Gettysburg
was fought in 1863.
15. If a story contains
no names, it can be libelous.
16. There are 13 items in
a baker’s dozen.
17. Underdeveloped or emergent
nation.
18. Executive, judicial
and legislative.
19. Pulitzer-winning Scripps
Howard World War II
correspondent who died in the Pacific.
20. Pulitzer Prizes are
administered/distributed from
Columbia University, New York.
21. Blue laws are laws prohibiting
business on
Sunday.
22. A sacred cow in newspaper
parlance is a subject
regarded as above criticism or attack.
23. The prime rate is the
minimum rate that banks
charge their better customers.
24. Libel is any false or
malicious written or
printed statement.
25. Gerrymandering is redistricting
of voting
districts to the advantage of one party.
26. A felony is more serious.
27. J. Paul Getty made his
money in oil.
28. Albany, N.Y.; Salem,
Ore.; Raleigh, N.C.; Austin,
Texas; Jefferson City, Mo.
29. The acquittal of police
officers accused of
beating Rodney King in Los Angeles (the incident was
caught on videotape).
30. Whitewater, Filegate,
Travelgate, Paula Jones,
Monica Lewinsky and other sexual accusations.
31. Jewish girl whose family
went into hiding during
the years of the Holocaust. Her diary “The Diary of
Anne Frank” told of her life in hiding. Her family was
found and she later died in a concentration camp.
32. Arthur Ashe, Rock Hudson,
Ryan White, Perry
Ellis, Brad Davis, Anthony Perkins.
AIDS — acquired
immune deficiency syndrome;
HIV — human immunodeficiency virus.
AIDS is spread through unprotected sex, intravenous
drug use, being born to an infected mother, blood
transfusions.
33. John Steinbeck.
34. Tiananmen Square.
35. Suspect in the bombing
of an abortion clinic in
Birmingham, Ala., and one in Atlanta (Still at large).
36. Amman, Jordan.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Vienna, Austria.
Ottawa, Canada.
Lisbon, Portugal.
Tehran, Iran.
37. The American B-29 bomber
that dropped the first
atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
38. The imposition of political
and economic controls
on the South by the victorious North after the Civil
War.
39. Bill Gates.
40. It is Russian for openness
in government, a
policy instituted under Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev.
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Math
ANSWERS — Part 11, page 9
1) 24.1 percent
2) 7.2 percent
3) $12.60
4)
55 votes
5) 7 percentage points,
or 9.1 percent
6) It should be 300 percent.
Another potential problem is the definition of “women
in severely reduced
circumstances as a result of being displaced as
homemakers.” Those probably are unreliable figures
because that's a difficult thing to define.
7) $160 million would be
a fourfold increase from $40
million.
8) The mortality rate among
the cases reported (not
those afflicted, which almost certainly is different,
and larger) is 27 percent, not 29 percent. The “almost
29%” is a silly way to write it. Sure, 27 percent is
“almost 29%” but what’s special about 29 percent? (If
there is something special about it — some sort of
epidemiological term of art — then the writer ought to
include it in the story.) It ought to be either
“27%,” to be precise, or “more than a quarter” to make
it easier to read for the numerically impaired. Or,
even fuzzier, between a quarter and a third of those
who reported the disease died. But not “almost 29%.”
Also, we don’t know how many people were afflicted; we
only know the number of reported cases.
9) The drop was 81.5 percent
10) A 6.2 rating is one-tenth
of a percentage point
higher than 6.1, not 1 percent higher.
_Editing
ANSWERS — Part 12 — Paragraphs, page 10
1. Either move the word decapitated
lower in the
story or don’t use it at all.
2. Call the reporter and
see if we can get the name
of the kid. There’s no reason not to. This is an issue
we need to push police on.
3. Delete the sentence “Steam
wafted from its burned
body.” It’s unnecessarily graphic.
4. Question whether the
paper’s policy is to name
juveniles charged in felony crimes. The answer varies,
so always check.
5. If you are electrocuted,
you're dead.
6. Needs attribution in
the first sentence.
7. Watch for loaded, opinionated
words such as
“influential” and “high-powered.”
8. Check the time element.
It doesn’t match up.
9. Questionable, sexist
comment.
10. We really don’t want
to be equating sweet
librarians with the slang term for prostitutes.
11. Editorial comment between
dashes is opinion;
delete it.
12. Either state the relationship
and don’t name the
guy, or name the guy and don’t state the relationship.
Doing both reveals the name of a sexual assault
victim.
13. We don’t use the term
“dumb” anymore to describe
someone who can’t speak. It should be “mute.”
14. Eisenhower’s middle
initial was D. He was a
Republican who was elected in 1952 and reelected in
1956.
15. The final debate in
the Western European country
was viewed by 22 million people nationwide. Check the
rest of the sentence because the number is less than
half of the 45 million registered voters.
16. The committee rejected
the plan to hire a pompon
squad for the team, chairwoman Emily Morgan said. She
said the panel and the school board will evaluate its
options. “A well-dressed grandmother of four” is
irrelevant and should be deleted.
17. When the accused killer
entered the jail, the
sheriff was upset. “There is nowhere except up that
[he] can go now,” he said. If this quote must run, it
probably would be best to paraphrase. Note beginning
quotes and the correct spelling of “there.”
18. Either the number of
children is incorrect, or
there should be a comma between “Bobby” and “Joe” or
“Sue” and “Ellen.”
19. The police chief said
10 pounds of cocaine, then
said 8 kilograms. Check the math. Also, it’s unlikely
that the cocaine has a street value of $40 billion.
20. After a 13-year separation,
Angel and her father,
Daniel Lawson, hugged ecstatically. Lawson, 62, last
saw his daughter on the night she was born. Check the
year. If Angel was born in 1982, then she and her
father would have had a 17-year separation. “A rainy
night of sorrow” needs to be explained or deleted.
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ANSWERS — Part 13 — Sentences, page 13
1. I don’t even know how
to begin editing these
sentences.
2. The consensus was that
the house was unique.
3. Lisa has myriad books,
but never seems to read
them.
4. The assistant, who ordinarily
is highly efficient,
was all thumbs in today’s experiment.
5. After evaluating the
effect the regulations would
have on the educational system, the voters must
persuade the Legislature to make changes.
6. Volkswagen is having
trouble with only one of its
1983 models.
7. The copy editors will
meet today.
8. The two bank robbery
suspects have not been
caught.
9. When I was a young boy,
my father took me to
Denver.
10. A graduate course in
communications is being
introduced this semester.
11. He wanted to know whether
the criteria were
valid.
12. Seven astronauts returned
to Earth today.
13. They saw the remnant
of a kite’s tail and some
tattered paper swinging from the utility pole.
14. I feel nauseated when
I think about the memento I
lost.
15. Rudolf Nureyev danced
for years before becoming a
director.
16. Floodwaters destroyed
the town despite the
floodwall surrounding it.
17. Her cancer was diagnosed
in June.
18. It looks as though Juston
will be hanged for
murder despite his appeal to the
governor.
19. Three people were in
the car when it hit a tree,
but none was injured.
20. Despite adverse weather,
the cookout will begin
at 7 Sunday night.
21. The women’s group canceled
the forum.
22. Geoffrey wanted to go,
but changed his mind.
23. Only a woman whose values
are corrupt could like
that kind of man.
24. Before the meeting,
the premier implied that he
would fire the secretary of state.
25. Sir, that high-quality
stereo is a bargain.
26. Mayor Joe Blow was killed
about 11:15 p.m.
Thursday. John Smith has been charged with murder in
the case. His trial is scheduled for Feb. 28.
27. She said she is too
young to remember the Vietnam
War.
28. Gee, I think I’ll get
some Jell-O.
29. She was strangled in
her bed.
30. The coach said he thinks
the team lost because
its best halfback broke his leg in the first quarter.
31. His brother, who he
said was an alcoholic, threw
himself in front of a bus.
32. The only thing they
are concerned about this year
is that Thad makes a smooth transition to the
major-league team.
33. Fernando respects Lynn’s
contributions.
34. The odor of onion persists
because neither of you
has taken out the garbage.
35. Amanda said the truck’s
noise kept her awake at
night.
36. The people have a right
to know everything about
whomever they elect. If they vote for someone who
political leaders say is unreliable, then they deserve
what they get.
37. The letter did not significantly
affect the
outcome.
38. He began poring over
the old records before
morning.
39. As she traveled across
the United States, its
vastness affected her.
40. The Vikings have fewer
players, but they block as
they should.
41. In Texas schools, the
stress on grammar is
minuscule.
42. If a deer lay down in
deep snow, a person would
need to be closer than 10 feet to see it.
43. The principal reason
for the principal’s firing
was his weird behavior.
44. Addie found many people
sitting around.
45. Seattle police have
arrested a 25-year-old
drifter who is suspected of killing an East Side
woman. Charges will be filed.
46. The suspect took a taxi
to the Texas Theater at
231 W. Jefferson Blvd. on Nov. 21, 1963, and fled
without paying his fare, police records show.
47. For 10 days, workers
labored more than 12 hours
daily to complete the building.
48. Paul finished planning
on Monday.
49. The story about the
deaths of Elvis Presley, Bing
Crosby and Groucho Marx was written on April Fools’
Day.
50. Leslie withdrew $10
from an automated teller on
her way to work.
51. She is the widow of
John Smith, who died in 1976.
52. The CIA was interested
in the activities of one
man: copy editor Mike Jones.
53. Every one of the clues
helped lead to the
perpetrators’ apprehensions, the officer said.
54. Do you have a recipe
for clam chowder that won’t
nauseate me?
55. Attorney General Sam
Johnson is committed to
prosecuting insurance fraud, from large ripoffs to
nickel-and-dime claims.
56. The appellate court
remanded the case to Sewanee
County Court.
57. Janie made reservations
for Joe and me.
58. The body probably will
lie in state until
Wednesday.
59. Jean Smith said that
her daughter needs special
education, at-home medical care and physical therapy
and that she doesn’t understand the state’s delay.
60. Using expensive stationery,
Jones wrote his
letter of resignation after being
confronted with the evidence.
61. Mother Teresa was famous
for helping the needy.
62. The group decided to
leave early.
63. The enormous house is
breathtaking. If you stand
in the middle of the living room, the fireplace is
farther than 10 yards.
64. She wants to stop the
confusion before the
meeting ends.
65. Susie did poorly on
the test, and afterward she
felt bad.
66. Pam almost jumped through
the roof when we
surprised her.
67. Police said the confessed
killer led them to the
body.
68. Kleenex was Gina’s best
friend when she had the
flu.
69. Kelly, Nancy and Cindy
are different from one
another, but get along well.
70. The dresses are on sale
today.
71. Whom do you wish to
see?
72. Driving to Chicago during
rush hour is grueling.
73. Jane is going to inform
the people near the leak
to evacuate.
74. The organization’s leaders
were speechless for a
while after learning what had transpired. It is hoped
that they will recover from their amazement soon.
75. Texas is the second-biggest
state in the
continental United States.
76. To whom shall I give
the book?
77. I’m going to give him
the Band-Aid, regardless of
whether he needs it.
78. Janet said she is willing
to tinker with the
contract offer.
79. She has all of the children
except Anne.
80. The daylong crisis left
every editor frazzled.
81. She doesn’t like it
when Hank stays out late.
82. John Jones is the good
Samaritan who helped me.
83. The hospital is at Seventh
Avenue and 14th
Street.
84. This team, composed
of seven all-stars, is
different from the team of a couple of years ago.
85. Company workers filed
a class-action lawsuit.
86. Pretax deductions can
be arranged.
87. We bought the house
from Ebby Halliday, who had
been a Realtor for as long as area residents could
remember.
88. He ran out of the room
as though he had heard
someone yell “Fire!”
89. Georgians would pay
$64 for a driver’s license
under the proposal.
90. The president looked
happy as he took the oath of
office yesterday.
91. A good firefighter learns
to descend the pole
rapidly.
92. Tom is moving downtown.
93. Because the restaurant
is no longer accepting
reservations, we cannot eat there.
94. The editors attended
the final meeting.
95. I was late to work because
of car trouble.
96. Passover is a Jewish
holiday.
97. Lions were on both sides
of the door.
98. Hurricane Alex destroyed
many homes.
99. The Salvation Army is
a private agency.
100. Using the word “editor”
give:
a. The plural possessive: editors’
b. The plural: editors
c. The singular possessive: editor’s
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Headine Writing
ANSWERS — Part 14, page 21
1. Write a two-line, 18-
to 22-count headline.
The headline that appeared
in the newspaper with the
story about Dallas Love Field and the Wright
Amendment:
Eased limits at Love foiled
Dole vows to pursue change
These headlines have been submitted on tests:
Airlines, senators rip
Dole’s Love Field plan
Critics attack Dole’s
Love Field proposal
2. Write a two-line, 18- to 22-count headline.
The headline that appeared in the newspaper with the
story about the semiconductor video chip:
Peoria firm’s chip
links TV image to PC
These were submitted on tests:
Peoria firm squeezes
video onto one chip
Peoria company to unveil
video processing chip
3. Write a two-line, 13-
to 16-count headline.
Possible headlines for the
story about labeling
television shows:
Gore backs labeling
shows, industry balks
Gore interference
stalls TV labeling
4. Write a hammer head of
one to five words, along
with a deck of four to seven words.
Possible headlines for the story about the large
potato:
Six can eat just one
Genetic engineers create world’s biggest potato
Hold the butter
World’s largest potato can feed six
Forget the meat
Giant potato can feed family of six
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Story Editing
ANSWERS — Part 15, page 25
Edit these stories, keeping in mind spelling,
punctuation, grammar, style and wordiness, as well as
issues of fairness and libel. Numbers in bold
correspond to the paragraph numbers in each story.
Story 1, page 25
The issue is that the story
needs to be rewritten
entirely. The lede implies that the Jamesville man is
being held for being involved in the accident, but he
isn’t. He’s being held for a domestic dispute case for
which we have no details. Police found out about the
dispute after the accident.
So the things that should be flagged are:
1. The lede implies the man is being charged for
being involved in the accident.
2. We have no details about the domestic dispute.
When did it occur, before or after the accident? What
is the link between the domestic dispute and the
accident? If there is no link, the dispute should not
be included at this time.
Basic editing:
(Paragraph 1) “Pocono jail” — check whether “jail”
should be uppercase; the lead needs attribution
2) Abbreviate Washington when used with the city:
“East Bay, Wash.”
3) capitalize Hamilton
4) Confirm the ages with the reporter. Bates is 60
and his wife is 80. While this is possible, it’s safer
to check the accuracy.
5) “filed”
Story 2, page 26
Questions about fairness
a good copy editor might
raise:
3) This paragraph should say something like arrested
on a “charge of” rather than “who committed.” After
all, he hasn’t been convicted. (One could also ask how
many, if any, of the 14 arrests of the woman led to
convictions.)
4) Quote marks are missing before “I’ll wring his
neck.”
5) What relevance does “Hispanic” have? If a racial
or ethnic term is used in a story, the story should
make clear why it matters. If a story ascribes a
racial or ethnic designation to one party, it should
do so with other people in the story (and not assume
that readers will think the rest are, for instance,
white). And how do police know who is Hispanic,
anyway? It’s not a physical characteristic.
The first sentence calls it a “new program,” so the
reference to “new” in the second paragraph could be
deleted.
Misplaced quote mark after “demanded it.”
6) Is it fair to his daughters to mention them?
Although their names are not used, they are clearly
identifiable through their school connection and
likely would be taunted there. Does having them in the
story contribute to its news value? After “undercover
police officer,” the story should say “he said” or
“she said.” What follows in that sentence is the
officer’s version, not proven facts.
7) Missing quote mark before “My husband ...”
8) “Cost-effective” is not backed up in the story.
Also, “cost-effective,” “Tom Cruise look-alike” and
“smoothly” load the story on the side of the chief’s
assertions.
In the next sentence, “court documents” implies
final facts. So, it should be asked whether the
reference is to case outcomes (convictions) or charges
by police (allegations not yet proven). If the latter
(which experience indicates is more likely), it would
be fairer to change “court documents” to “police say.”
A good method is to ask: Just what did the reporter
see?
Before the next reference to Desmond Jones, the
story should say, “If convicted,”
9) In this paragraph, the police official should be
named. It’s not fair to have an unnamed person take a
shot at a named one.
Notes:
Why is there no comment in the story from Jones? It
is apparent from the last paragraph that the reporter
saw Jones where he could be interviewed, and it
appears from the final quote that Jones might indeed
have a defense.
A good place to add a quote from Jones may be after
the paragraph ending “Stroll.”
Two bigger-picture questions a copy editor might
raise:
a. Is doing the story this way fair to Molly Jones?
Although it casts her in a positive light, she
certainly didn’t ask to be prominently featured as a
wife whose husband may seek sex elsewhere.
b. Is it fair to single out one arrested person and
publish embarrassing details about him and thus his
family? Allegedly, he was not the worst offender, only
the first. Would the story be at least as newsworthy
if instead it reported, without naming a suspect, on
the total of arrests?
A copy editor might feel uncomfortable raising all
these questions, or even some of them, as if to do so
is to somehow support illegality or dull writing. So
it can aid the copy editor to convey:
1. You’re not challenging the writer, you’re trying
to help the coverage;
2. It has been thoroughly documented that readers
don’t like unfairness, so why risk it;
3. A story becomes stronger if it can acknowledge
the other side while still making its point. This is
highly important in copy editing. Declaring something
is wrong in a story usually leads to a refusal or
argument. Asking about something invites an answer or
conversation.
Story 3, page 27
1) “Taps” should be in quotes.
Confirm “Chisago” is correct spelling.
Say “Saturday” instead of “last weekend.”
2) officer’s funeral.
What instrument does he play? Was he speaking after
the burial? Consider inserting one line on who Jerry
Haaf is or was. The reference means little as it is.
3) State Patrol/state patrol — capitalize
accordingly and be consistent in story. Also in
paragraph 17.
Change “... troopers wept in their pews ...” to “...
troopers sat weeping ...”
4) “about 4,000” law enforcement? Do we know 4,000
were there?
Confirm name of church because later it is called
Church of the Epiphany
marshal (Marshall is someone’s name)
5) 7-mile automobile procession
Highway 10
delete “up the highway”
“toward” the cemetery
Break this paragraph into two sentences — “The
7-mile automobile procession up Highway 10 took nearly
an hour and a half. Hundreds of people, some holding
signs or waving flags, stood along roads or on
overpasses to see the almost 800 squad cars, many with
flashing lights on, roll slowly toward the cemetery.”
It seems awkward to say “792 squad cars.” Did
someone really count them?
8) O’Brien “arrived at Bowe’s side” makes it sound
like he rushed to the scene. If he’s Bowe’s partner,
he was there when the shooting happened, right? Maybe
change “arrived” to “was.”
Write “about 1 a.m. Saturday” instead of “early
Saturday morning about 1 a.m.”
“While he held up two IV bags in each hand, trooper
Bruce Brynell talked to Bowe, reciting the names of
his wife, Denise, and their children ...” Several
things about this sentence: Who was holding the bags?
O’Brien or Brynell? Was he holding two IV bags in each
hand or two IV bags, one in each hand?
9) Bowe squeezed whose hand? O’Brien’s or Brynell’s?
One of them is holding IV bags in his hands.
10) Move “about an hour later” behind “pronounced
dead.”
12) Fish Lake Township.
Lindstrom sat up.
coroner report.
.40-caliber.
Police said Lindstrom and others, not Bowe and
others.
13) Is this the correct name of the church? See
paragraph 4.
14) entourage is misspelled.
Delete “of” before “the night of”
Add “the” after “the night of”
15) “piped out” isn’t necessary.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, not Canadian
Mounties.
Sentence needs a period.
16) This paragraph could be deleted.
If it’s not deleted, delete the second “spokeswoman
for the.”
17) State Patrol/state patrol — confirm
capitalization; see paragraph 3.
the Communion wafers (Communion is also misspelled);
18) “remarkably” is unnecessary;
19) recalled;
When Bowe came upon a traffic accident.
Bowe, not “Boe”;
unclear what “government” means;
20) Why wasn’t Bowe required to stop at the crash
last summer? It seems Bowe was off duty when he
stopped for the accident. We should say so.
21) mortality
This paragraph should be deleted.
Notes:
The copy editor should find out Bowe’s age. More
should be said about the funeral for the shooter,
either after paragraph 11 or in a sidebar packaged
with the main story. Are there any new details from
the shooting? Are there details about Bowe’s family?
Story 4, page 29
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