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EQUAL WRITES

Thursday, April 18, 2013 By Michael Lyons Leave a Comment

TWO RELEVANT QUOTES

“I’m all for embarrassing politicians whenever possible.”
Chris Vander Doelen

“I’m all for embarrassing writers whenever possible.”
Michael Lyons

Find, identify and correct the errors in the following pieces.

“Take the ongoing politically motivated audits of Windsor’s well-run Enwin group of utilities. Compare to the relative lack of interest shown in the $80-million-plus outrage unfolding at the unbelievably mismanaged Windsor-Essex Catholic school board.”
Chris Vander Doelen, “Barking up the wrong tree”, The Windsor Star, Thursday, April 18, 2013.

“In fact, the biggest anomaly uncovered in Enwin’s books is that the city-owned utilities are running so lean they aren’t paying staff all the bonuses they are entitled to. If they earned it, I think they should get it.”
Chris Vander Doelen, “Barking up the wrong tree”, The Windsor Star, Thursday, April 18, 2013.

“Institutionalized theft, in other words.”
Chris Vander Doelen, “Barking up the wrong tree”, The Windsor Star, Thursday, April 18, 2013.

“ ‘I can tell you now, this council and myself won’t build an $18-million museum when we’ve just purchased the Art Gallery of Windsor building that could house this,’ said Francis, describing the AGW as “a $22-million museum-quality grade building.”
Eddie Francis, in a story, City to tackle museum question”, by Doug Schmidt, The Windsor Star, Thursday, April 18, 2013.

TODAY’S WORD

The word for today is “reciprocity”.
What part of speech is “reciprocity”?
Define “reciprocity” and use it in a sentence that shows its meaning.

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