Style Exercises 5.1, 5.2

5.1
1. The president had two aims in his mind when he assumed his office -- the recovery of the American economy and the modernization of America into a military power. His success in the first is testified by the drop in unemployment figures and inflation, and the increase in GDP. He was, however, less successful with the second, indicated by our increased involvement in international conflict without any clear set of political goals. Nevertheless, the American voter was pleased with the increases in the military budget and a good deal of saber rattling.

2. Our report to demonstrate Abco's advantages versus competitors will highlight the components of its profitability, particularly growth in Asian markets. This analysis will be supported by revenue returns along several dimensions -- product type, end-use, distribution channels, etc. We project that the growth prospects of Abco's newest product lines will likely depend most on its ability in regard to the development of distribution channels in China, where the introduction of new products will be needed to be supported by a range of innovative strategies.

5.2
1. Vegetation covers the earth, except for those areas continuously covered with ice or utterly scorched by continual heat. Plans grow most richly on richly fertilized plains and river valleys, but also at the edge of perpetual snow in high mountains. Densely vegetated areas include the ocean and its edges as well as in and around lakes and swamps. Plants live in the cracks of busy city sidewalks as well as in seemingly barren cliffs. Vegetation covered the earth before humans existed, and the earth will have vegetation long after evolutionary history swallows us up.

2.
In their natural states, animals don't have the power to create and communicate a new message to fit a new experience. Their genetic code limits the number and kind of messages that they can communicate. For example, bees can only communicate information about distance, direction, source and richness of pollen in flowers. In all significant aspects, animals of the same species share a limited repertoire of messages delivered in the same way, for generation after generation.

3.
In his paper on children's thinking, Jones (1985) stressed the importance of language skills in their problem-solving ability. Improvements in language skills reportedly resulted in improvement in nonverbal problem solving. Better performance is thought to be caused by the use of previously acquired language habits for problem articulation and activation of knowledge previously learned through language. Therefore, in the enhancement of problem solving in general, we should explore systematic practice in the verbal formulation of nonlinguistic problems prior to attempts at their solution.