In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.

tdl group announced in march 2006 , in response to a request by chief of the defence staff , general rick hillier , its commitment to open a franchised location at the canadian forces operations base in kandahar , afghanistan.
tdl group said in march 2006 , as a reply to chief of the defence staff , general rick hillier , its promise to open a company location at the canadian forces base in kandahar , afghanistan.

some of the computer models suggested the weakening tropical storm could be absorbed by a developing low to the west , which a few days later became hurricane epsilon.
the computer program guessed that the weak storm could become part of a larger one , and it did and was named hurricane epsilon.

at the end of the 20th century there was an emerging consensus among developmental neurobiologists that the establishment of thalamocortical connections -lrb- at about 26 weeks -rrb- is a critical event with regard to fetal perception of pain.
in the last part of the 1900s , developmental neurobiologists agreed that thalamocortical connections were important to how a fetus feels pain.