Editing to Achieve Parallelism Please revise the following five items, making their structure parallel. 1. The following recommendations were made regarding the Cost Containment Committee's position statement: Stress that this statement is for all departments. The statement should emphasize that it applies both to department managers and staff. Such strong words as should and must are best replaced with words that are less commanding. . 2. To waste time and missing deadlines are bad habits. 3. The company offers special university training to help nonexempt employees move into professional careers such as human resources, accounting, customer representatives, and sales trainees. 4. Either we must increase our operational efficiency, or we have to make decreases in our production goals. 5. Mr. Simms had been drenched with rain, bombarded with telephone calls, and his boss shouted at him