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XI. Mechanics (Chapters 55-57)

Exercise 57.1

Correct the hyphenation errors in the following paragraphs.

This activity contains 5 questions.

Stress-management calls for the development of positive selfesteem, which can help you cope with stressful situations. Selfesteem skills are instilled through learned habits. Stress management also requires that you learn to see stressors not as adversaries but as exercises in life. These skills, along with other stress management techniques, can help you get through many difficult situations.

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Smoke-less tobacco is used by approximately 12-million Americans, one fourth of whom are under the age of twenty one. Most users are teen-age and young adult males, who are often emulating a professional sports-figure or a family-member.

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In a consumer oriented environment, many hospitals are making efforts to improve patient care. Many are now designated as trauma-centers. They have helicopters to transport victims, they have in house specialty physicians available around-the clock, and they have specialized-diagnostic equipment. Though very expensive to run, trauma-centers have dramatically reduced mortality-rates for trauma-patients.

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Hispanics made up the fastest growing segment of the US-population during the 1990s. However, Hispanics constitute diverse groups, having come from a variety of Spanish speaking countries at different times in the nation's history-Because the United States at one time seized large amounts of land from Mexico- the largest group of Hispanics are of Mexican-descent. Newspapers serving these descendants are called the Chicano-press and are printed in Spanish, English, or sometimes both languages.

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Felice Schwartz (1989) suggested that corporations offer women a choice of two parallel career paths. The "fast-track" consists of high powered, demanding positions that require sixty-or-seventy hours of work per week, regular responsibilities, emergencies, out of town meetings, and a briefcase jammed with work on week-ends. The second track, the "mommy-track," would stress both career and family. Less would be expected of a woman on the mommy-track, for her commitment to the firm would be lower and her commitment to her family higher.

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