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Decide what is most important (i.e., newsworthy) and prioritize the information in an inverted pyramid or hard-news story format. Then select the answer (number) that lists the information in correct order.
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Instructions: Decide what is most important (i.e., newsworthy) and prioritize the information in an inverted pyramid or hard-news story format. Then select the answer (number) that lists the information in correct order.
a. “It’s an amazing opportunity for Central Indiana, for Indianapolis,” said Osili, a Democrat whose council district includes the tech park.
b. The City-County Council on Monday approved $75 million in tax-increment financing bonds to help fund a 50-acre technology park along Indiana Avenue north of Eskenazi Hospital and Fall Creek that supporters said would have a transformative impact on the capital city.
c. Two mayors and 13 years later, a long-delayed effort to build a tech park on Indianapolis’ Near Westside is finally coming to fruition.
d. Although he ultimately voted for the proposal, he said he had lingering concerns that the council was being rushed on a project of this magnitude.
e. The vote was unanimous, despite some council members — including co-sponsor Vop Osili — saying they wanted more time to vet the project agreement.
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Instructions: Decide what is most important (i.e., newsworthy) and prioritize the information in an inverted pyramid or hard-news story format. Then select the answer (number) that lists the information in correct order.
a. Two-thirds of the states, including Indiana and the District of Columbia, now use a minimum of 0.10 percent to determine when a driver is legally drunk.
b. Seventeen states use the 0.08 percent limit.
c. A bill pending in Congress would make all states set their drunken-driving thresholds at a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent.
d. The Clinton administration endorsed a national drunken-driving standard Thursday that would force two-thirds of the states to toughen their laws or lose federal highway money.
e. Drunken driving deaths have declined an average of 16 percent in the first states to adopt the lower limit: Utah, Oregon, Maine, California and Vermont.
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Instructions: Decide what is most important (i.e., newsworthy) and prioritize the information in an inverted pyramid or hard-news story format. Then select the answer (number) that lists the information in correct order.
a. The agreement is expected to end the lawsuit Salaita filed against the university earlier this year.
b. The University of Illinois has reached a tentative settlement with Steven Salaita, the controversial professor whose job offer was withdrawn last year after he made anti-Israel comments on social media.
c. The settlement is on the meeting agenda, though there are no details because “things are being finalized,” said university spokesman Thomas Hardy.
d. “It is no secret that there have been negotiations and efforts to reach mutual agreement,” Hardy said.
e. U. of I. trustees are expected to vote on the proposed agreement at their meeting Thursday.
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