Why couldn’t we have been mighty Bulls instead? Governor Jim Edgar in Area Development (May): “Illinois has for decades been among the mightiest pistons in the national economic engine.”
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Rewriting and editing, on the other hand, are optional. From a suburban quality assurance consultant’s brochure: “With these new standards the quality profession has been legitimatized. It is no longer an option whether a company has a quality program or not. Nor is it an option as to the nature of that program. The days of ‘The Quality Program of the Month’ and ‘Quality Buzz Words’ are gone. The same is true for the panderers to the quality profession. As the quality field has developed so has the nature of the quality consultant. Like their professional counterparts…”
Sentences we were afraid to read beyond. From a Cooperative Extension Service flyer on spring leaf diseases: “There are many foliar diseases, however, a few are more serious than others and more common than some. Anthracnose is one.”
Who loves me, who loves me not? About five of every eight adults surveyed in the six-county region say that the city of Chicago is a positive influence on their quality of life, reports the Metro Chicago Information Center on South Michigan. Most disaffected: African-American suburbanites, only 41 percent of whom see the city as a positive influence. Most affectionate: white urbanites, who are 75 percent procity.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Illustration/Carl Kock.
