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117) The following appeared in an editorial in the Mason City newspaper.
"At present, Mason City residents seldom use the nearby Mason River for any kind of
recreational activity, even though surveys of the region's residents consistently rank
water sports (swimming, fishing, and boating) as a favorite form of recreation. Since
there have been complaints about the quality of the water in the river, residents must be
avoiding the river because they think that it is not clean enough. But that situation is
about to change: the agency responsible for rivers in our region has announced plans to
clean up Mason River. Therefore, recreational use of the river is likely to increase, so the
Mason City council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the publicly
owned lands along the Mason River."
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118) The following report appeared in a memo from the vice president of the Southside
Transportation Authority.
"We should abandon our current five-year plan to purchase additional buses to serve the
campus of Southside University, because students there are unlikely to use them.
Consider the results of the recent campaign sponsored by the Environmental Club at
Southside University: in a program on the campus radio station, the club asked students
to call in and pledge that they would commute to school by bus instead of by automobile
at least one day per week. Only ten percent of the students called in and pledged. In view
of the campaign's lack of success, we can assume that the bus service we currently offer
will continue to be sufficient to serve the university."
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119) The following appeared in the editorial section of an educational publication.
"One study at Lee University found that first-semester grades of teenage students who
had always attended public, tax-supported schools were slightly lower than the grades of
students who had received some home schooling instruction by parents at home,
although the grade differences disappeared in the second semester. These results suggest
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