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Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
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The El Paso, Texas, maker of Western boots and leather accessories said the preferred stock would accrue dividends at a 12 % rate, but wouldn't be paid for the first two years.
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The El Paso Texas of Western boots said the stock would accrue dividends a rate of 12%, but wouldn't be paid for the first 2 years.


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Claiborne investigates and reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats, about which he tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information that fatua is Latin for ` foolish ': it was also Latin for ` wild, ' which might be more to the point.
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Claiborne reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats, and tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information?


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It involves very complicated choices that have to do with the biology of species, their life cycles, how they respond to various changes in the oceans, etc. "
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Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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"It involves complicated choices for biology of species, their life cycles, how they respond to ocean changes"


