Exercise C

(Williams, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (3d ed.)

1. Regardless of the fact that the training program has a long financial problem history and management-staff dispute record because of unclear responsibility definition, it is equally true that in the period of the last few years or so, it has with considerable success placed in the area of 50 percent of its trainees in various different jobs and positions equal to their training and skill-level preparation.

2. Many city dwellers find it a necessity to give up on life as it exists in the city at the present time as a consequence of things such as dirt and crime that finally defeat them despite the fact that on the occasion of their leaving for more rural environs, they often come to the realization that they wish they again had the intensity and excitement that makes life in the city such a stimulating experience.

3. To obligate a corporation upon a contract to another party, it must be proven by the other party that the contract was the act of the corporation, whether by corporate action, that of an authorized agent, or by adoption and ratification by the Board of Directors and such ratification will be implied by the acquiescence or the acceptance of any of the benefits of such contract, it being essential to such implied ratification that the acceptance by with knowledge of all pertinent facts.

(Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers, 4^th ed.)

4. By establishing a technique whereby the claims of many individuals can be resolved at the same time, class actions serve an important function in our judicial system in eliminating the possibility of repetitious litigation and providing claimants with a method of obtaining enforcement of claims that would otherwise be too small to warrant individual litigation.

5. While there are instances in which consumer abuse and exploitation result from advertising that is false, misleading, or irrelevant, it does not necessarily follow that these cases need to be remedied by governmental intervention in the marketplace because it is possible for consumers’ interests to be protected through resort to the courts, either by consumers themselves or by those competing sellers who see their market shares decline in the face of inroads based on such advertising.