In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

Q: The Wage Stabilization Board ( WSB ) was an independent agency of the United States government whose function was to make wage control policy recommendations and to implement such wage controls as were approved .

A: The Wage Stabilization Board ( WSB ) was an independent agency of the United States government .
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Q: A critically endangered ( CR ) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild .

A: A critically endangered species is a species of plant or animal , that has an extremely high chance of dying out in the future .
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Q: All of the yews are very closely related to each other , and some botanists treat them all as subspecies or varieties of just one widespread species ; under this treatment , the species name used is " Taxus baccata " , the first yew described scientifically .

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All of the yews are very closely related to each other , and often described together as " Taxus baccata " .
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