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[Q]: The savings are counted in more ways than dollars and cents, however. The families of the new wage earners may feel the accomplishment in terms of a house to live in, money to purchase food - - without food stamps - - and the beginning of a family focused on success, not hopelessness.
[A]: The savings are counted and the families of new earners may feel the progress in terms of a house, food, and the beginning of focusing on success.

[Q]: For the second time in a week, a NYT front-pager about Congress' performance this year is brutally frank, appearing under the headline "HEALTH INDUSTRY SEES WISH LIST MADE INTO LAW."
[A]: For the second time in a week, Congress' performance appears in a NYT paper as "HEALTH INDUSTRY SEES WISH LIST MADE INTO LAW"

[Q]: Krugman seems to cast himself as a white blood corpuscle defending the body of economics against the invading pathogens of the liberal reformers.
[A]:
Krugman casts himself as a white blood corpuscle defending the body of economic against liberal reformers.