Furthermore, the work flow was     1    . There was one especially absent-minded young man in the assembly line who     2         3     buttons. After a while I recognized him as“Big Jim”who used to sit behind me in math class in high school. He was very slow and all the shirts were held up at his position. Workers     4     him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do; therefore a great deal of time and efficiency were lost as Big Jim daydreamed while he worked. All week I wondered why he wasn’t fired.

A different form of reading might also be done,     1         2         3     in the past: reading aloud. Few     4     bring a family closer together than gathering around and listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the quiet hour ends, the TV networks might even be forced to come up with better shows in order to     5         6         7     from our newly discovered activities.

I     1     a string around the diaper box and mailed it without a     2     stamped envelope and without making a copy of the     3    . A month later I received a contract, an advance on royalties, and a     4     to start working on another book.