8. They have little trouble reaching the retired and full-time
home-makers, they have a hard time pinning down young adults,
working women and high-income people.

11. Over the last six months I've run across half a dozen companies
in the midst of downsizing whose managers actually believed
they must keep impending layoffs secret until a properly worded
announcement could be drafted. The people about to be pinkslipped
were no dummies, however, they could see that business was less
than robust, and they knew something was about to happen.

13. The members of the organization work in nurseries and playrooms
in children's hospitals, in the golden age clubs and community
hospitals.

16. You had two DIs on the case originally, several DSs, God
knows how many DCs and PCs and WPCs. — No such thing now.
All women are PCs — no sex discrimination these days.

17. "You think he was off to the rubbish dump?" "Could've been.
'Waste Reception Area', by the way, sir".

18. Disabilities, like many sad concomitants of life, are often
cloaked in euphemisms. Thus it is that the "blind" and the "deaf"
are happily no longer among us. Instead, in their respective clinics,
we know our fellow out-patients as those affected by impaired vision
and as citizens with a serious hearing impediment.

Может кто-нибудь знает как перевести, использую политкорректную лексику, ОСОБЕННО интересует 16-ое предложение, Я имею ввиду сокращения.Заранее спасибо

но в переводе уж лучше потренируйтесь сами.

а/ Вы его делаете тоже за деньги. Чего на нас пургу гнать тогда?

б/ Вы его делаете не за деньги. В учебном процессе. Надо понимать, получите в результате диплом и станете более оплачиваемым специалистом. Те же деньги, только вид сбоку.. через пару лет... Чего пургу гнать опять тогда?

в/ Вы не для себя, а для кого-то, кому надо. Копнув, увидим либо вариант а) либо вариант б) у того, кому надо.