TASK DEFINITION: Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Iwasaki's careful respect for the Long Beach program and its lawyers earned him the political capital he needed to complete his takeover in a matter of weeks.
Sent 2: "The Long Beach program had strong support in the community so in a situation like that, one has to recognize that it's not like a takeover where I have all the answers and I know best," Iwasaki said.
Sent 3: "The people in the community who are working there have the contacts and the knowledge that will allow service to continue."Sent 4: Things have gone less smoothly across town.
Sent 5: There, Dudovitz, a longtime poverty lawyer and executive director of the San Fernando Valley's 36-year-old legal aid program, continues to struggle with his hostile takeover of the neighboring San Gabriel-Pomona Valleys service area one year after it was accomplished.
Sent 6: On the bright side, Dudovitz has extended his respected program to clients in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, and he now operates on a much larger budget, $6.5 million last year.
Sent 7: However, his clash with the old San Gabriel program resulted in litigation, bitter feelings and a mission that some say is not clearly focused on serving poor people.
Sent 8: "It was a difficult situation that was probably mishandled by everyone," a longtime observer of the public interest community said of the San Fernando Valley-San Gabriel-Pomona Valley merger.
Sent 9: "There are very few people who come out as the heroes.
Sent 10: Personalities got involved when they shouldn't have.
Sent 11: Things were said that caused bad feelings and couldn't be unsaid."Sent 12: Iwasaki's merger with the smaller, 48-year-old Long Beach program was friendly and fast, and no one - not even Long Beach board members - lost a job.
Sent 13: When it was over, Iwasaki had $1 million more in federal dollars and two new offices.
Sent 14: Long Beach clients regained services they had lost years ago when federal budget cuts and dwindling grants reduced the staff of 15 lawyers to five and cut immigration and consumer law programs.
Sent 15: Iwasaki said, "[I judged the transition] better than I could have hoped for.".
Question: What is the difference in the ages of the Long Beach and San Fernando Valley programs?.

SOLUTION: 8.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School.
Sent 2: Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal.
Sent 3: Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice.
Sent 4: The full report can be viewed at (www.calbar.org).
Sent 5: In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.
Sent 6: Leaving her abusive husband, she moved into the only apartment she could afford, and soon discovered a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing.
Sent 7: She began withholding rent pending repairs her landlord refused to make, but then her Medi-Cal benefits were cut off when she could not provide rent receipts.
Sent 8: She lost health care for her children and herself, although she is a borderline diabetic in need of medication and her children were suffering from rat bites.
Sent 9: Katherine tried to seek help through the courts.
Sent 10: Representing herself at an administrative hearing, she lost her appeal to restore Medi-Cal benefits because she did not have proper documentation of the rent account.
Sent 11: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Sent 12: According to "The Path to Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California," prepared by the California Commission on Access to Justice, Katherine is just one of 4.6 million poor Californians whose basic civil legal needs -- often involving such critical needs as housing, health care, education, employment, safety and transportation -- are not being addressed.
Sent 13: California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Sent 14: Our justice system is predicated on the assumption that both parties will be represented by lawyers who act as gatekeepers and guides through a complex legal system that would otherwise be inaccessible to many of us.
Sent 15: Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services.
Sent 16: California does have a strong network of legal aid organizations that try to help meet the needs of the poor, but there's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people.
Sent 17: We may promise "justice for all," but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Sent 18: In its new report, the Commission on Access to Justice notes some significant steps toward providing equal access to justice for all Californians.
Question: Why was Katherine unsuccessful in representing herself?.

SOLUTION: She did not produce the proper documents.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding "that's all we know right now, Mr. President."Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering "How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.
Question: What does NMCC stand for?.

SOLUTION:
National Military Command Center.