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Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
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Seventeen evictions were delayed, giving families additional time to find new housing, Romeo said. And in three other cases, the lawyers were not able to get extensions but were able to avert judgments against the tenants.
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Seventeen evictions were delayed, giving families additional time to find new housing, and the lawyers weren't able to get extensions but able avert judgments.

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In a more general sense-and this has nothing to do with conspicuous consumption-both homes and clothes convey values. Carl Larsson's home was a statement of both his and Karin's naturalistic aesthetic ideals, so was James Tissot's exotic sitting room.
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Besides consumption-both homes and clothes convey values. Carl Larsson's home was a statement of his and Karin's naturalistic aesthetic ideals, so was James Tissot's exotic sitting room.

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Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 case legalizing abortion, made fetal viability an important legal concept.
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Roe vs. Wade made fetal viability an important legal concept