TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: At this point, planners have focused on short-term repair of PATH and subway lines, with medium-range proposals being shopped in Washington that could untangle the disorganized web of subway lines downtown.

SOLUTION: Planners have focused on short-term repair of PATH & subway lines, with medium-range proposals proposed in Washington to clear the subway lines downtown.

PROBLEM: The Germans themselves have coined a unique, hard-to-translate phrase to describe the controversies that have driven their system of justice for the last fifty years. They call it Bewaltigung der Vergangenheit-"overcoming" or "coming to grips with" the past.

SOLUTION: The Germans themselves have coined a unique phrase to describe the controversies that have driven their system of justice for the last fifty years. They call it Bewaltigung der Vergangenheit.

PROBLEM: And even though national security policy didn't come up, I suggested that one crucial issue for voters to ponder is this: whose finger do you want on the ALT-CONTROL-DELETE button?

SOLUTION:
The national security policy didn't come up, One issue for voters to ponder is this: whose finger do you want on the button?