Moreover, despite the confines of their columns, newspaper and magazine writers have yet to learn much about using the shorter phrase or the single word. Oftentimes, the Senate, as well as the White House, struggles with questions involving what is now being described as lifestyle. The problem is that, in effect, the Senate and the White House sometimes are being asked to put their stamp of approval on lifestyles that, while acceptable in Washington, are not acceptable by general standards elsewhere. Often, the Senate and the White House struggle with questions of lifestyle. The problem is that both sometimes are asked to approve lifestyles that, while acceptable in Washington, are not generally acceptable elsewhere.
Journalists furnish their newspapers and magazines with quantities of verbiage.
Here, though, are just a few more examples. Lack of experience on the part of the firm is also a source of delay and difficulty. Lack of experience would be better phrased as the inexperience, and on the part of as, simply, of. If sea levels rise to the extent that scientists predict, the Marshall Islands, which are composed of two chains of coral islands rising no more than 5 feet above the sea, would be submerged. A more careful journalist might have written as much as instead of to the extent that, and comprise instead of are composed of.