Quizzes: How to Revise > Deleting redundancy

Journalists place great value in conciseness. Compress the following by cutting repetitive words and phrases.

1		The police chief indicated that securing the building was an absolute necessity.
2		The next step is to consider all of the prospective suspects and classify them into groups.
3		The engineer disassembled the mechanism into its component parts.
4		His professional résumé includes both a comprehensive list of places he has worked and a list of his educational credentials, including his bachelor's and master's degrees.
5		Thomas ran the program in four 30-minute sessions, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., and from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
6		The meeting is scheduled to be held at 10:30 a.m. in the grand ballroom.
7		Katrina was the most powerful hurricane in recorded history ever to strike New Orleans.
8		A violent explosion ripped apart the gas station.
9		The team's star player had never before spoken to the general public.
10		Over time it became patently obvious that little Elmer was now nothing but a lifeless corpse.