Plethora of flubs

This week's post offers a variety of flubs, including style mistakes, misspellings and sentences that can be streamlined. Can you figure out how we improved sentences before they made it into The Forum?

1. Detroit Lakes math teacher Lisa Larson recently paid a visit to the White House.

2. Justin Flaten knows his company has sales opportunities in Columbia.

3. The trade agreement apparently became entangled in the Presidential campaign.

4. The installations include home theatre systems with wall-size screens.

5. He started out as a management consultant doing coding in the late 1990's.

6. "We're going to put a Band-aid on it and we're going to move forward."

7. Members of the State Historical Society of North Dakota will soon say good-bye to a long-time archivist.

8. No arrests have been made, according to spokesperson Mark Jamieson.

9. The seminar is scheduled from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the North Dakota State University Memorial Union.

10. They can require more right-of-way than a conventional intersection.

1. Detroit Lakes math teacher Lisa Larson recently visited the White House.

2. Justin Flaten knows his company has sales opportunities in Colombia.

3. The trade agreement apparently became entangled in the presidential campaign.

4. The installations include home theater systems with wall-size screens. I've mentioned this style rule before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat. AP Stylebook says: theater Use this spelling unless the proper name is Theatre: Shubert Theatre; or, in a local example, Fargo Theatre.

5. He started out as a management consultant doing coding in the late 1990s.
Again, I've mentioned this style rule before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat. AP Stylebook says: Use an s without an apostrophe to indicate spans of decades or centuries.

6. "We're going to put a Band-Aid on it and we're going to move forward." AP Stylebook says: Band-Aid A trademark for a type of adhesive bandage.

7. The State Historical Society of North Dakota will soon say goodbye to a longtime archivist. Both are in the AP Stylebook.

8. No arrests have been made, according to spokesman Mark Jamieson. AP Stylebook says: spokesman, spokeswoman But not spokesperson. Use a representative if you do not know the sex of the individual.

9. The seminar is scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the North Dakota State University Memorial Union. AP Stylebook says: noon Do not put a 12 in front of it. midnight Do not put a 12 in front of it. times Use figures except for noon and midnight.

10. They can require more right of way than a conventional intersection. Find this in the AP Stylebook.