Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

Input: Consider Input: COST OBJECT (ALSO REFERRED TO AS COST OBJECTIVE) - An activity, output, or item whose cost is to be measured. In a broad sense, a cost object can be an organizational division, a function, task, product, service, or a customer.

Output: COST OBJECT (ALSO REFERRED TO AS COST OBJECTIVE) - An activity, output, or item whose cost is to be measured. For example, a customer or product could be a cost object.

Input: Consider Input: But a 1978 article by Ted Bear, then a flight-center historian at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where the experiment in question took place, tells it this way:

Output: But a 1978 article by Ted Bear, then a historian at Edwards AFB in CA., where the experiment took place, tells it this way:

Input: Consider Input: Finally television that's smart enough for New Yorkers!
Output: Finally television for New Yorkers!