1. The economy withered in 1991. Corporate bankruptcies rose 40 percent over 1990.
2. Despite the rise in fares, short ocean voyages continue to draw vacationers for all over America. Now "cruises to nowhere" have grown in popularity.
3. Regular cleaning of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington has eroded the marble. The National Park Service will have to repair it.
4. How can noise ordinances protect city dwellers against loud portable radios cradled like babies in the arms of strolling adolescents? The police seem reluctant to arrest young offenders since a loud radio is not a violent crime.
5. When my mother first got a job, I had to make some sudden adjustments. I had to deal with an unexpected feeling of abandonment the first time I came home from grade school to an empty house and realized that Mom was not there to greet me and that everything seemed still and dead.
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