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 % Choosing your Guarantees
 
-One important feature of Rust as language is that it lets us control the costs and guarantees
+One important feature of Rust is that it lets us control the costs and guarantees
 of a program.
 
 There are various “wrapper type” abstractions in the Rust standard library which embody