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

My purpose in writing to you is twofold. First, to inform you of some recent activities of the SPEA MHA Alumni Association and second, to ask for your commitment, both financial and participatory.
I am writing to you to inform you of recent activities of the SPEA MHA Alumni Association.

Specifically, we matched data from the HCTAR survey to corresponding establishment-level data from the Department of Commerce's Longitudinal Research Database (LRD). The LRD provides longitudinal data for establishments included in the Bureau of the Census Annual Survey of Manufacturing.
We matched data from the HCTAR survey to corresponding establishment-level data from the Department of Commerce's (LRD).

Iraq has been under economic sanctions since the war ended, which some say have thwarted the country's ability to recover from the devastation of the bombing campaign.
Iraq is having trouble recovering from the bombing campaigns,that has put them in economic sanctions