Rewrite the following lengthy sentences in a shorter version that retains the same information as the original. Your revision probably will be longer than the original because it will include more than one sentence, but no individual sentence should be longer than 20 words.
1. Mitchell Aruba, vice president of research at Mountain Electronics, Ltd., has received the Medal of Distinction given by the Alumni Association of Southeastern University in recognition of his breakthrough invention of the robotic neonatal vascular pump that has become a frequently used tool in cardiac surgery on infants, tripling their chances of survival.
2. Explaining the Potawamiah County Bar Association’s opposition to the bill proposed in the County Legislature by Commissioner Carl Frankelberger of Jasonville, association president Bertha Orczynski said the bill would limit the freedom of choice among senior citizens in selecting attorneys of their own choice in civil lawsuits.
3. The Metropolitan Academy for the Arts—a professional training ground for many local musicians and artists—has announced that its new director will be Octavio Diaz, currently managing producer of the Provincial Music Institute and a former professor of arts management at Buena Vista University located in your hometown.
4. Milton Redfox will lead a delegation of tribal leaders to the state capital this week, ready to confront state lawmakers over their attempt to collect taxes on goods sold on Indian lands, which Redfox and his supporters note violates their rights to self-governance as a recognized sovereign nation separate from the state, based on the guarantee of several treaties, some of them older than the United States government itself.
5. The Health Advocacy Network of Apple County (HANAC) is creating a countywide community task force of professionals drawn from the areas of health care, social work, education, religion, government, law enforcement and business to focus on the growing problem of elder neglect and elder abuse, which HANAC claims is increasing at an alarming 25 percent a year, with the first meeting of the task force scheduled for next Monday at 7 p.m. in the County Building on Macintosh Road.
