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Subject:Re: What's a girl to do? From:Annamaria Profit <inteltek -at- erols -dot- com> To:jarnopol <jarnopol -at- interaccess -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 May 2000 00:43:20 -0400
hehehehee Wendy Girl,
I know you aint gonna really do this...but I recognize your need to
fantasize! I had a boss once who called these outbursts "ACMs" (adverse
career moves!)
> "Other than the inconsistency of tense, gross overuse of passive voice,
> >unnecessarily large words, technical jargon, sentences that should be broken
> >into *paragraphs*, and stressing the unimportant details over the major
> >improvements, yea... it's fine!"
> >
> >What would you do?
>
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