1. Thefollowing appeared in a memorandum written by the vice president of Nature'sWay, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products.
"Previousexperience has show that our stores are most profitable in areas whereresidents are highly concerned about leading healthy lives. We should thereforbuild our next new store in Plainsville, which has many such residents.Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothingare at all-time highs. The local health club, which nearly closed five yearsago due to lack of business, has more members than ever, and the weighttraining and aerobics classes are always full. We can even anticipate a newgeneration of customers: Plainsville's schoolchildren are required toparticipate in a 'fitness for life' program, which emphasizes the benefits ofregular exercise at an early age."
3. Thefollowing appeared in a newspaper article about law firms in the city ofMegalopolis.
"InMegalopolis, the number of law school graduates who went to work for large,corporate firms declined by 15 percent over the last three years, whereas anincreasing number of graduated took jobs at small, general practical firms.Even though large firms usually offer much higher salaries, law schoolgraduates are choosing to work for the smaller firms most likely because theyexperience greater job satisfaction at smaller firms. In a survey of first-yearstudents at a leading law school, most agreed with the statement that earning sa high salary was less important to them than job satisfaction. This findingsuggests that the large, corporate firms of Megalopolis will need to offergraduates more benefits and incentives and reduce the number of hours they mustwork."
6. Thefollowing was written as a part of an application for a small business loan bya group of developers in the city of Monroe.
"Ajazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise.Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65-miles away; thus , our proposed club,the C-Note, would have the local market all to itself. Plus, jazz is extremelypopular in Monroe: over 100,000 people attended Monroe's jazz festival lastsummer, several well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe, and the highest-ratedradio program in Monroe is 'Jazz Nightly,' which airs every weeknight. Finally,a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan speeds close to $1,000per year on jazz entertainment. It is clear that the C-Note cannot help butmake money."
203"The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines."
59"Too much emphasis is placed on role models. Instead of copying others, people should learn to think and act independently and thus make the choices that are best for them."