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Do Not Put Statements In The Negative Form. And Don't Start Sentences With A Conjunction. If You Reread Your Work, You Will Find On Rereading That A Great Deal Of Repetition Can Be Avoided By Rereading And Editing. Never Use A Long Word When A Diminutive One Will Do. Unqualified Superlatives Are The Worst Of All. De-accession Euphemisms. If Any Word Is Improper At The End Of A Sentence, A Linking Verb Is. Avoid Trendy Locutions That Sound Flaky. Last, But Not Least, Avoid Cliches Like The Plague.

Don't Expect Others To Do Your Work For You.

Decide On Some Imperfect Somebody And You Will Win, Because The Truest Truism In Politics Is: You Can't Beat Somebody With Nobody.

Give Your Main Clause A Little Space. Prose Is Not Like Boxing; The Skilled Writer Deliberately Telegraphs His Punch, Knowing That The Reader Wants To Take The Message Directly On The Chin.

The Ceo Era Gave Rise To The Cfo (not Certified Flying Object, As You Might Imagine, But Chief Financial Officer) And, Most Recently, The Cio, Chief Investment Officer, A Nice Boost For The Bookkeeper You Can't Afford To Give A Raise . . .