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Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
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The LAT , NYT , and WP fronts carry the news that the federal government has indeed, as it first hinted over a week ago, decided to try to block the Lockheed-Northrop merger.
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The LAT , NYT , and WP report that the federal government has, as previously hinted, decided to block the Lockheed-Northrop merger

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8. Will Hillary stick with Bill or ditch him like a hot potato as soon as he is out of office?
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8. Will Hillary stick with Bill or ditch him like a hot potato?

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Daniel Hungerford observed that the Richmond-Kotelchuck model suggests that changes in practice result from effort applied to all three elements of the model-political will, social strategy, and knowledge base. It might seem that research activities apply only to the knowledge base aspect of the model.
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Hungerford observed that the Richmond-Kotelchuck model suggests that changes in practice result from effort applied to will, social strategy, and knowledge base. It seems that research apply only to the knowledge base aspect.