TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at $200 million.

SOLUTION: designer says,one of a kind begining stages of the proect are estimated at $200 million

PROBLEM: "Your past contribution provided a direct line of support for local programs that promote health and wellness, strengthen families, invest in our children, help people become self-sufficient, and serve the elderly and disabled."

SOLUTION: Past contributions provide support for local programs that promote health and wellness, strengthen families invest in children and serve the elderly.

PROBLEM: ( Frosh , by the way, seems to have come from the German for "frog"--it was a 19 th -century nickname for members of an entering class of German university students.)

SOLUTION:
Frosh, from the German for "frog, was a 19th century nickname for members of an entering class of German university students.