Do you need to practice editing and tightening sentences? Here are some exercises.
1. Maddy alluded the Nassau Police Chief by hiding herself.
2. Asran anticipated that terminal would someday be eleven-years old.
3. Tehru has no doubt the fact that she is ready to build an oven in her backyard.
4. Just among the two of us, Tamika is regarded as being the fastest typist in the class.
5. Sampson suspected that they were often plotting acts of an unkind nature.
6. The program was comprised of a youthful group of people.
7. Millie knew that she was different than the rest.
8. Rob hearkened back to the days when he was a carefree student with no responsibilities.
9. Martha wanted to leave the chairs just like she'd found them.
10. Rory wanted to take the issue farther.
11. The editors suspected that all the decisions about their assignments had been finalized.
12. Shaun wanted to leave the project to stand as it was.
13. The hometown where Terry Anderson was born was the subject of many jokes
14. From her statements about the material, Eli implied that the war had ended in 1945.
15. More importantly, Mario plans to someday own a french fry stand.
16. In the final analysis, all that matters is that the members of the class are kind to Chandra.
17. Within ten minutes, the class palns to be inside of the classroom.
18. The recruits found the work fun and to be scintillating in terms of the erudite people they got to meet.
19. Stacie said he wanted to leave the book set on the table.
20. The class spent it's time like it had in the old days.
21. Irregardless of the process, Rubaina knew she'd enjoy the task.
22. Petey sent home several momentos of the Unity 94 convention.
23. Lorena said she was nauseous, so the rest of the team told her to go outside.
24. Ninf said she can neither sleep or drink at work, and she is right.
25. Tammi was detail-orientated from the first initial steps.
26. John found the road to journalism success torturous.
27. Tabitha planned to utilize the facilties to their fullest capacity.
28. San Jose currently has no openings but is expected to to by May.
29. Kevin thought that it was a lesson that each and everyone of us should learn.
30. Ron plannned to affect change in the continuing operation of The Greenwich Times.
31. One former editor said she considered the horrible efforts of her's to be regretful.
32. The ongoing excercises made them all tiresome.
33. While this job category attracted more candidates each time, less people were applying for other programs as the years went on.
34. They kenw he was a man who couldn't hardly be counted on.
35. He considered his selection for the job to be fortuitous.
36. I was unsure as to wether nor not we would go to L.A.
37. Life in the Roaring Twneties were boring compared to life here in the present time.
38. He temporarily suspended his trip.
39. Ken said noise caused by the operation of the refrigerator kept him awake at nighttime.
40. He decided to begin the use of the special tools.
41. Rebecca began the investigation of the womens' background.
42. The prearranged signal warned Smila that the necessary requirements hadn't been met.
43. Mark said the group had the intention to leave early.
44. It was the consensus of opinion in the newsroom that the editors would be reaching a conclusion soon.
45. Hopefully, the entire whole group will finish this year.
46. She called for the startup of the talks to begin.
47. At a later time, Walter would be able to finish the book.
48. Timothy began to notice that the state of the prisoner's health was deteriorating.
49. Juston found the second job offer to be preferabble to the first.
50. Don may have been small in size but he was wiry.
51. Rory said they had made a decision to implement the new policy.
52. The prerecorded message was found to be unintelligible.
53. The advance planning was completed on Thursday.
54. James stood up when the king entered.
55. Maggie lost the crossword puzzles due to her carelessness.
56. Sting believes the companies should stop their exploitation of the Amazon.
57. Three editors were terminated after being interrogated about how much of their colleague's lunches they'd partaken in.
58. The editor said she would be reviewing the employees efforts and that then she would be notifying him of the results.
59. Of the people who'd read the article, fourteen said they were offended by the article and seven said they would be considering further action in the future.
60. All of the candidates chose to remain silent during the conference.
61. A commercial truck collided with the building as it past through the intersection.
62. The men held a meeting to protest the agency's actions against them.
63. While both Kim and Garcia were hurt, neither was injured seriously.
64. Participants at the conference decided that the directors credentials were acceptable to them and voted to allow him to join in the ongoing debate.
65. The suspect drove the car westbound until his arrest at about
8:38 a.m.
Edit the following stories, and then write headlines on each. For simplicity's sake, just count each letter and space between words as one.
Three men, including the wounded one, were arrested in the incident at the LaPuerta Deli on Sunrise Highway, and the forth escaped.
Anthony Martin, 45, of 1313 East Hawk Drive, Northport, was pronouced dead at Good Samaratin Hospital in West Islip. His passenger, Peter Trenkel, 41, of 215 W. Broad St., Commack, was transported to University Hospital in Stony Brook, where he was listed as being in critical condition, said the hospital spokeswoman Ellen Lampert.
The operator of the truck, Liam Lufkin of Denton, Texas, was uninjured in the crash.
At about 4 a.m. yseterday, the 1990 Mercury, traveling eastbound between exits 51 and 52, hit the truck, owned by Triad Specialized Carriers Inc., of Joplin, Mo., as it left from a rest stop. Witnesses said that the car was traveling at a high rate of speed when it crashed.
Gruesome crime, wonton sex and random violence are taking over the airwaves, a family-rights advocate testified before Congress on Monday.
"We must do something before its too late,’’ said the Rev. Kenneth A. Kirby, an Episcopalian priest from the Bronx.
He said that it was the concensus of opinion amongst parents of some of the children in his parish that something had to be done.
He said that churches in his diocese are attempting to combat what he labelled to be the "useless, mine-numbing tripe’’ shown each and every night on the airwaves by scheduling more events of a religious nature during prime-time hours.
Injured most seriously in the collision was the driver, police said, Antonio Pallucci who suffered trauma about the head and the neck. The injuries to the passanger, Leonardo Genovese, considered to be less serious, but specific details were not being released about his condition or his injuries by police.
The cause of the mishap was not given by police, but anonymous sources outside the bar who did not want to be indentified said that they thought the vicitms might have been drinking before the accident occured.
"We think they might have been drinking’’ beofre the incident occured, revealed one of the patrons of the bar, who also added that the men had frequented the bar several times in recent weeks, but didn’t know if the men had been in the bar just before the accident happened.
Police who had responded to the scene of the accident said that they didn’t care tocomment offically but said off the record that drinking might have played a factor in the accident because they found empty beer cans located in the trunk of the smashed vehicle.
Police said that this accident was the third to occur outside the busy club in less than a year. Past accidents resulting from the poor condition of it’s parking lot and resultent inability to see the busy highway because of cars parked along side of the two-story nightspot, police reported, blocking drivers from seeing ongoing traffic.
Treatment was being given the men for theier injuries.
Police sources said that they expect to charge Genovese with wreckless endangerment once he has recovered from his injuries.
Two men who cheered on their cousin as he beat a man to death last year outside of a bar in Westfield last year were sentenced to two years each in prison yesterday.
Andrew Campini, 31, and John Campini, 28, both of Commack, were both patronizing the White Swan bar when an altercation developed between their cousin, Peter Venitti and the victim, Ventayan Brijbassi, who was 33 at the time.
When the fight moved outside of the bar onto the sidewalk, the Campini’s followed and cheered as Brijbassi died.
"Look, these two goombahs didn’t care about my husband,’’said the grieving
widow of the victim Althea Brijbassi.
"They’re nothing but gangsters. I hope they rot in Hell.’’
The Brijbassi's had 7 children, ranging in age from 11 months to 13
years of age.
Venitti’s trila is scheduled to begin on Sept.31.
While continuing to refute Mayor Casper Oleksi’s demand that the municipal police take command of all school security, the Ashtabula school board has offered the department vast new responsibilities for recruiting, screeningand training new safety officers and their supervisors, a spokesman for the board said yesterday.
Under the initiative, the poice would work with the Lake County Community College criminal justice department to design and head up an intense 135-hr. training program for school safety recruiters later this year, showing them how to diffuse angry faceoffs, spot weapons, control unruly students and write up reports, said Michael E. Schroeder of the school board’s public affairs office.
The debate over who should control school secruity issues is still being argued. But the schools superintendent, Peter King, has taken a less confrontational stance, while stopping just short of abdicating his control over school security.
The plan is unlikely to molify the mayor, who has been pushing for total control over all phases of police and security concerns, at the schools for the last two years.
Most members of the board contacted by telephone last night said that they were satisified with Oleski's plan to involve police in the school’s security. But one, Martin Hollandar, said that if school crime rates did not drop in the next year, he would go along with plans to relinquish all safety authority to the local police.
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