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• Revise these two passages to improve their familiar-unfamiliar flow, so that familiar information comes first.
• 1. Two aims—the recovery of the American economy and the modernization of America into a military power—were in Reagan’s mind when he assumed the office of the presidency. The drop in unemployment figures and inflation, and the increase in the GNP testifies to his success in the first. But our increased involvement in international conflict without any clear set of political goals indicates less success with the second. Nevertheless, vast increases in the military budget and a good deal of saber rattling pleased the American voter.