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Section 7.85 in the Spotlight - CMOS Shop Talk
| -million contract. Solved: Her contract is worth $4–$5 million. Solved: She has a $4-to-$5-million... contract. Numbers and abbreviations In Chicago style, numerals + abbreviations have no need of hyphens... |
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| “John is running every day.” But in quoted speech or dialogue in a story or a novel, the contraction ... |
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| implying one or more: “In the event that your facility is struck by terrorists, this contract is void.” You... |
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| ” is “cannot” or, contracted, “can’t.” The two-word phrase “can not” is rarely necessary: e.g., “I can... |
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| be plugged into personalized letters or contracts. It’s a shortcut that eliminates having to type a client’s name into many passages.... |
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| your example and often in contracts and other legal documents. Parentheses used in this way have no... |
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| used for acronyms, initialisms, and contractions, as well as for shortened (abbreviated) forms... |
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| organization’s name at the end of a sentence like “The attorneys filing the lawsuit doubt that the contract was... |
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| meaning of each phrase would be clear without them: city and state government contracts; recording- and practice-space expenses.... |
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| name. On the other hand, ’Nam would also be correct—as a contraction of “Vietnam.” So you could... |
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