Word: editing
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Interview subjects repeatedly tried to fix the grammar in their quotes. There were at least a dozen offers to edit The Crimson's prose before it went into print (all, as Crimson policy requires, were politely refused...
Seth Mnookin would write a Scrutiny on tattoo parlors. For extra realism, for that elusive I-was-there touch, he would actually get a tattoo--this would be his fourth. I, in turn, would edit him. And get a tattoo, too. This would be my first...
Even as Vice President Gore touted a new cost consciousness, President Clinton authorized $335,800 in retroactive pay increases for political appointees. This week the General Accounting Office concluded the raises were "proper." However, a draft of the GAO report, obtained by TIME, had misgivings -- before the final edit...
...Those are barriers which somehow or another have to be dismantled. Those ( are our cold war manners. Of course, all intelligence services like to retain their mystique. The first thing the Americans do if they get a wonderful report from the Israelis is edit it, retitle it, put all sorts of stamps all over it and shove it upstairs. This is another reason, incidentally, why intelligence assessments are so frequently distorted: the same source can fund a whole lot of seemingly separate intelligence documents. Let's say, the Israelis prepare a document which they're prepared to give...
First, you take "When Harry Met Sally." Edit out the good jokes. Take away any hint of realism. Then make the Meg Ryan character even more self-absorbed and whiny...