Table 6 Example summaries generated by EXABSUMExtractive and EXABSUMAbstractive for Document WSJ891019-0021 (DUC 2002 Corpus, Cluster d062j) with 50% ratio of original text

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The White House is making sure nobody will accuse it of taking this crisis lightly

President Bush and his aides flew into a whirlwind of earthquake related activity yesterday morning

Mr Bush and his aides were accused of responding too slowly after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker split open in Alaskan waters and Hurricane Hugo struck the Carolina coast

Mr. Bush got his first earthquake briefing of the day at 6:30 a.m

Mr Bush said that he hoped there would be less carping about the emergency office performance this time adding that the agency took a hit for its reaction to Hurricane Hugo

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president bush visiting the california earthquake site this weekend. president bush and his aides flew into a whirlwind of earthquake related activity yesterday morning to get federal help flowing to victims, designed mostly to project image of white house in action, were trying to head off criticism, were accused of responding too slowly after the exxon valdez oil tanker split open in alaskan waters and hurricane hugo struck the carolina coast visited fema headquarters do not want a repeat those charges. the white house is making sure nobody will accuse it of taking crisis lightly