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     This file lets you test the Import File feature.  It also shows 
several types of writing - good and poor.  Press [R]GL at the Results 
Menu, then press [T]ext & Graph to see text printed on your screen.  Look 
at how the the Running Grade Levels change for the different sections. 

*** 1. From a Business Week article.  Compare this with the next 
example.  The topics of both:  The growing gap between worker skills and 
the skills needed to do jobs. 
 
[Grade: 8   # Words/Sentence: 8   % Complex Words: 2%]  
 
	In a dynamic economy there is always a gap between job demands and 
worker skills.  Through most of its history, the U. S. has managed to 
keep that gap small.  But not anymore.  The nation is facing a monumental 
mismatch between jobs and the ability of Americans to do them.  Unless 
the U. S. invests more to close this human capital deficit, the economy 
will be shunted onto a lower growth track.   
 
*** 2. From a U. S. government report titled "Automation and the 
Workplace."   
 
[Grade: 18   # Words/Sentence: 16   % Complex Words: 22%]  
 
	At various stages in U. S. history, changes in workplace operations 
and procedures in all sectors of the economy have resulted in changes in 
education, training and retraining requirements.  Changes in 
instructional requirements for manufacturing-related work have been 
particularly dramatic.  In some instances, they have been so extensive 
and widespread that they have triggered changes in the structures of 
institutions and organizations engaged in the delivery of education, 
training and retraining services or the emergence of new instructional 
providers.  
 
*** 3.  From an employee newsletter.  Note it's complexity - in a 
newsletter for all staff (some with 5th-6th grade educations). 
 
[Grade: 15   # Words/Sentence: 32 (!!)   % Complex Words: 21%] 
 
     Some respondents felt that the projections should have been adjusted 
to reflect the impact of inflation on future account balances.  The 
writers had a variety of suggestions for fixing the projections, ranging 
from putting a cap on them to printing a reminder that inflation over a 
long period of time is likely to have a significant effect on the 
spending power of projected (account) balances.  Other employees 
suggested changing the assumptions, such as reducing either the assumed 
amount projected for an annual salary increase (5 percent) or the 
percentage projected as the rate of return (8 percent).  
 
*** 4.  Legalese: Part of an employee benefits booklet-same company. 
 
[Grade: 19   # Words/Sentence: 103 (!!!!)   % Complex Words: 16%]  
 
     The right of any person to receive any payment from the Trust Fund, 
or to receive any other amount becoming payable to him under the 
provisions of the Plan, shall not be subject to alienation or assignment, 
unless required by law, except that a participant may make a voluntary 
and revocable assignment of up to 10% of any  payment hereunder, with the 
consent of the Committee.  If such person shall attempt to assign, 
transfer or dispose of such right in violation of this section, or should 
any right not assignable hereunder be subjected to attachment, execution, 
garnishment, sequestration or other legal, equitable or other process, 
it shall, to the extent permitted by law, ipso facto, pass and be 
transferred to such one or more as may be appointed by the Committee from 
among the beneficiaries, if any of the participant with respect to whom  
such right arises, and the spouse, blood relatives or dependents of such 
participants and in such shares and proportions as the  Committee may 
appoint, provided, however, that notwithstanding any of the foregoing 
considerations or any appointments so made, the  Committee, in its sole 
discretion may reappoint such person to receive any payment thereafter 
becoming due, either in whole or in part. 
              [NOTE:  The last sentence has 139 words!]