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1. Imax Corp.
One who comes into a country immigrates
Action word lay - laid - laying
A scale of temperature based on - but different from - the Celsius scale. It is used primarily in science to record very high and very low temperatures. The Kelvin scale starts at zero and indicates the total absence of heat (absolute zero). Zero on
Headquarters is in Mississauga - Ontario

2. Iberia
Singular criteria is the plural
Inasmuch as
Headquarters is in Minneapolis
Headquarters of this airline is in Madrid - Spain

3. Kennedy Space Center
Only when person prefers to be known that way; use quotation marks for Brandon 'Scoop' Carter; commonly used nicknames can be replaced for first names
Also: keynote speech
See John F. Kennedy Space Center
Abbreviation for the Latin id est or that is and is always followed by a comma

4. like
Contain - include all - or embrace
Salable
These and similar combinations of a letter and figure(s) designate rifles used by the military. The forms: an M-1 rifle - an M-16 rifle
Preposition to compare nouns and pronouns Jim blocks like a pro

5. salvo - salvos
Create or put together
Preferred to persons as the plural
Kindergarten
Salvo - salvos

6. amok
Always use figures. Use hyphens for ages expressed as adjectives before a noun or substitute as a noun
Not amuck
ASCAP is acceptable on second reference. Headquarters is in New York
Trademark for an electronic control device or stun gun. (Acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle)

7. take off (v.) takeoff (n. and adj.)
Lowercase spell out numbers less than 10
Introduces two items; between him and her - between you and me
Abbreviation for the Latin id est or that is and is always followed by a comma
Take off - takeoff

8. Defendant
Do NOT use teenaged
Precede with a hyphen: break-in - cave-in - walk-in - write-in
See pardon - parole - probation
No e

9. anchorman - anchorwoman
The city in Texas stands alone in datelines
Noun and verb denoting completeness or supplementing something
Not anchor or co-anchor
A device used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a unit - ready for insertion into the magazine of a repeating firearm

10. salable
A trademark for a brand of hot pepper sauce
Salable
Every two years
An aviator or handbill; pass out those fliers

11. emigrate
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
Use singular verb and pronoun 'it' when referring to the team as a collective unit. However - the team name takes a plural verb: The Orlando Magic are close to setting a franchise record
One who leaves a country emigrates from it
Gun is an acceptable term for any firearm

12. Addresses
Ketchup
Abbreviate Kan. in datelines or stories. Postal code: KS
Spell out and capitalize first through ninth use figures for others Ave. Blvd. St. only ones allowed to be abbreviated when numbered address is present. Do Not abbreviate compass points if number is omitted
Use Taiwan - not Formosa - in reverences to the government in Taiwan and the island itself

13. compose
Precede with a hyphen: break-in - cave-in - walk-in - write-in
In second reference: the America Exchange - Amex - or the exchange
Teammate
Create or put together

14. kibbutz
An Israeli collective settlement. The plural is kibbutzim
A trademark for a type of high-powered cartridge with a larger case and a larger powder charge than other cartridges of approximately the same caliber. The form: a .357 Magnum - a .44 Magnum
The ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a firearm. It may be fixed to the firearm or detachable
Device used to launch a mortar shell; it is the shell - not the mortar - that is fired

15. Americorps
Americorps
DON'T USE IN PRINT
A lightweight fully automatic gun firing handgun ammunition
A unit of power - mostly associated with electricity. Electrical energy is measured in watt-hours (or kilowatt-hours or mega-watt hours). Do not use 'megawatts Per hours.' Abbrev.: W - kW - MW.

16. less
Bulk or quantity; I had less than $50 in my pocket
Introduces two items; between him and her - between you and me
Lowercase with periods. Avoid the redundant 10 a.m. this morning.
Noun or verb denotes praise or expression of courtsey

17. Santa Claus
Capitalize only when referring to the total collections of events
Tail wind
Santa Claus
The metric term for 1000 grams. A kilogram is equal to approximately 2.2 pounds or 35 ounces. To convert to pounds - multiply by 2.2 (9 kilograms x 2.2 equals 19.8 pounds)

18. tear gas
Capitalize only when referring to the total collections of events
Two Words.
DON'T USE IN PRINT
Use figures. The form: 212-621-1500. For international numbers use 011 (From the United States) - the country code - the city code and the telephone number: 011-44-20-7535-1515. Use hyphens - not periods. The forms for toll free numbers: 800-111-1000

19. principal
Use only the initials in referring to the previously designed Scholastic Aptitude Test or the Scholastic Assessment Test. Example: The students scored above average on the SAT
Someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree ex. school principal
Take out (v.) take out (n. and adj)
Formerly Safeway Stores. Headquarters is in Pleasanton - Calif.

20. principle
See pardon - parole - probation
See Newspaper Association of America
Someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree ex. school principal
A fundamental truth - law - doctrine or motivating force

21. either
Use it to mean one or the other - not both
Always use figures. Use hyphens for ages expressed as adjectives before a noun or substitute as a noun
Lowercase spell out numbers less than 10
DO NOT PLACE IN QUOTES

22. team

23. Kentucky
Lowercase when describing the leader of a prayer in a Muslim mosque. Capitalize before a name when used as the formal title for a Muslim leader or ruler
Freight railroad - with headquarters in Kansas City - Mo. It is the parent of Kansas City Southern Railway Co. and Kansas City Southern de Mexico SA and it holds a 50 percent stake in Panama Canal Railway Co.
Abbreviate St. in the names of saints - cities - and other places: St. Jude - St. Paul - Minn.; St. John's - Newfoundland; St. Lawrence Seaway
Abbreviate Ky. in datelines or stories. Postal code: KY

24. telecast (n.) televise (v.)
Proper name of some trains and buses
Once limited to accepting deposits and making home mortgage loans - they are not banks. Since enactment of the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery Act in 1989
Yep.
Telecast (n.) televise (v.)

25. biennial
If comprise or compose doesn't fit - sense of form or make up
See Newspaper Association of America
Every two years
Use figures except for noon and midnight

26. pour
To flow in a continuous stream
Contraction for Who is NOT POSSESSIVE
2 c's and m's
Legal term for slaying or killing

27. keynote address
Also: keynote speech
One-fourth of an imperial gallon
The constitutional process accusing an elected official of a crime in an attempt to remove the official from office. Do not use as a synonym for convicted or removed from office
See shot

28. SAM - SAMs
When someone is the object of a verb or preposition
It means without preparation of advance thought
Not amidst
Acceptable on second reference for surface-to-air missile(s)

29. Adviser
Saudi Aramco is acceptable on second reference. (Formerly the Arabian American Oil Co.)
A compact - relatively inexpensive handgun
No O
Describes money - do not capitalize - city where a seat of government is located

30. sacrilegious
A compact - relatively inexpensive handgun
Formerly a trademark - now a generic term
Formerly Safeway Stores. Headquarters is in Pleasanton - Calif.
Sacrilegious

31. dollars
Lowercase - because it denotes not a single period but any series of cold periods marked by glaciation alternating with periods of relative warmth. Capitalize the proper nouns in the names of individual ice ages - such as the Wisconsin ice age. The m
ASCAP is acceptable on second reference. Headquarters is in New York
Acceptable in all forms
Lowercase use figures and $ sign

32. kilocycles
Anemia - anemic
The new term is kilohertz
Lowercase spell out cents 5 cents or $2.50
Two words unless used as adjective before a noun in a nautical sense

33. Academic Degrees

34. gender-neutral titles
Firefighter preferred over fireman or firewoman
Contain - include all - or embrace
Writing paper
Abbreviate St. in the names of saints - cities - and other places: St. Jude - St. Paul - Minn.; St. John's - Newfoundland; St. Lawrence Seaway

35. Sacagawea
Plural alumnae woman
Try to avoid abbreviations; use apostrophe in master's degree but not in Master of Science; only use B.A. - M.A. - LL.D. and Ph.D. when needed to identify individual on first reference if after a name set off with commas
Sacagawea
A weapon - usually supported on some type of carriage - that fires explosive projectiles. The form: a 105 mm cannon

36. Accept
A compact - relatively inexpensive handgun
To receive
Lowercase (without quotation marks) the bugle call for 'lights out -' also sounded at military funerals
The city in Utah stands alone in datelines

37. Kansas
Abbreviate Kan. in datelines or stories. Postal code: KS
Headquarters of this airline is in Madrid - Spain
APT is acceptable on second reference. Headquarters is in Reston - Va.
Tailspin

38. Kelvin scale
No s
To make sure or give confidence
A scale of temperature based on - but different from - the Celsius scale. It is used primarily in science to record very high and very low temperatures. The Kelvin scale starts at zero and indicates the total absence of heat (absolute zero). Zero on
Use Arabic figures - separated from letters by a hyphen: M-60 - plural: M-60s

39. Amtrak
Proper name of some trains and buses
Proper tenses for impel
This acronym - drawn from the words American travel by track - may be used in all references to the National Railroad Passenger Corp. Do not use AMTRAK. The corporation was established by Congress in 1970 to take over intercity passenger operations f
Use figures spell out inches - feet - yards hyphen adjectival forms before nouns

40. Teamsters union
Something cannot be partially demolished or destroyed
Capitalize building in Washington
Two words unless used as adjective before a noun in a nautical sense
Acceptable in all references to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters

41. rebut
Insurance
Follow the guidelines in composition titles. Put quotation marks around show only if it is part of the formal name. The word show may be dropped when it would be cumbersome - such as in a set of listings. In text or listing - treat programs named aft
To argue to the contrary
See shot

42. Compound Plurals
Abbreviate Ill. in datelines or stories. Postal code: IL
Most significant word is made plural: daughters-in-law - assistant attorneys general - major generals
A carriage-mounted cannon
After a girl reach the age 18 use woman or young woman

43. Talmud
Anemia - anemic
Headquarters of this airline is in Tempe - Ariz.
The collection of writings that constitute the Jewish civil and religious law
A semi-automatic firearm similar in appearance to a fully automatic firearm or military weapon. Not synonymous with assault rifle - which can be used in fully automatic mode. Wherever possible - be specific about the type of weapon: semi-automatic ri

44. Proper names plural
Saudi Aramco is acceptable on second reference. (Formerly the Arabian American Oil Co.)
Most ending in z or es or s add es: Joneses - Gonzalezes - Charleses
Never alright; sometimes all-right as a compound modifier
Acceptable on first reference for intercontinental ballistic missile(s) - but the term should be defines in the body of a story. Avoid the redundant ICBM missiles

45. amid
Use the ampersand when it is part of a company's formal name or company position title: House & Garden - Procter & Gamble - Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. The ampersand should not otherwise be used in place of and.
Named for Samuel Colt - it designates a make of weapon or ammunition developed for Colt handguns. The forms: a Colt .45-caliber revolver - .45 Colt ammunition
Not amidst
To introduce clauses Jim blocks the linebacker as he should

46. American Newspaper Publishers Association
Equal to one-sixth of a fluid ounce - or one-third of a tablespoon. The metric equivalent is approximately 5 milliliters
Legal term for slaying or killing
Use Saddam in second reference to Iraq's Saddam Hussein
See Newspaper Association of America

47. impassable - impassible - impassive

48. San'a

49. IBM
The amount of electrical energy consumed when 1000 watts are used for one hour. The abbreviation kwh is acceptable on second reference.
Twice a year
To introduce clauses Jim blocks the linebacker as he should
Acceptable as first reference for International Business Machines Corp. Headquarters is in Armonk - NY

50. over
Spatial relationships
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A cannon or other weapon designed for defense against air attack. The form: a 105 mm anti-aircraft gun.
Santa Claus