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• Mark Cuban
  | caption = Cuban in 2008 | nationality = [[United States|American]]
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• Surety bond
  ...the obligee against losses resulting from the principal's failure to meet the obligation. ...r-service/resources/qanda-the-legal-basics-of-surety-bonds-106|title = Q&A The Legal Basics of Surety Bonds |publisher = Cross Insurance Agency|access-dat
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• Moral hazard
  {{for|the novel|Moral Hazard (novel)}} ...sks. A moral hazard may occur where the actions of one party may change to the detriment of another after a [[financial transaction]] has taken place.
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• Insurance
  ...f [[risk management]], primarily used to [[Hedge (finance)|hedge]] against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss. ...t be reducible to financial terms, and usually involves something in which the insured has an [[insurable interest]] established by ownership, possession,
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• Structured settlement
  ...ountries including [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[England]] and the [[United States]]. ...8852-037-4 |pages=1–36}}</ref> Structured settlements are now often used in product liability and pharmaceutical injury cases (such as litigation invol
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• Reimbursement
  '''Reimbursement''' is the act of compensating someone for an [[out-of-pocket expense]] by giving them ...rsity]], [[academic conference]], or [[business conference]] may reimburse the expenses of an invited speaker or attendee.
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• Home warranty
  ...tural defects that might arise as a consequence of poor workmanship during the build process. ...uild quality of new homes offered with their warranty at key stages during the construction process.
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• Harvard University
  ...title=The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U6hsNJjVn | free = ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]''
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• Brown University
  {{About|the Ivy League university in Rhode Island|the university in Arkansas|John Brown University}} | motto = ''In Deo Speramus'' ([[Latin]])
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• Steve Jobs
  {{about|the person|other uses}} | caption = Jobs at the 2010 [[Worldwide Developers Conference]]
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• Jeff Bezos
  | image = Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle - 2018 (39074799225) (cropped).jpg | caption = Bezos in January 2018
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• Donald Trump
  {{short description|45th President of the United States}} |image = Donald Trump official portrait.jpg<!-- DO NOT CHANGE the picture without prior consensus, see [[Talk:Donald Trump#Current consensus]
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• RE/MAX
  {{for|the ARCA RE/MAX Series|ARCA Racing Series}} | location = [[Denver, Colorado]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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• Laramie, Wyoming
  | motto = Gem City of the Plains | map_caption = Location of Laramie in Albany County, Wyoming.
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• Katy, Texas
  ...tion = Location in [[Harris County, Texas|Harris County]] and the state of [[Texas]] |subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
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• Financial services
  ...in all economically developed geographic locations and tend to cluster in local, national, regional and international [[financial center]]s such as [[Econo ...of the late 1990s, which enabled different types of companies operating in the U.S. financial services industry at that time to merge.<ref>{{cite web|url=
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• AARP
  | headquarters = [[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States|U.S.]] ...s in all 50 U.S. States, the [[District of Columbia]], [[Puerto Rico]] and the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]]
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• Aetna
  | area_served = United States | revenue = {{nowrap|{{decrease}} [[United States Dollar|US$]] 60.535 billion {{small|(2017)}}<ref name="ar2017" />}}
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• Allstate
  {{about|the Allstate insurance company|other uses|Allstate (disambiguation)}} | name = The Allstate Corporation
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• Berkshire Hathaway
  ...away Energy]])<br>{{nowrap|Marc D. Hamburg}}<br>{{nowrap|([[Vice president#In business|Senior VP]] & [[CFO]])}} ...rren Buffett]] {{small|(30.71% of the aggregate voting power and 16.45% of the economic interest)}}<ref>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/315090/000
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• GEICO
  | image_caption = GEICO headquarters in [[Chevy Chase, Maryland]] ...venue = $25.483 billion USD (2017) <ref>{{Cite web|title =Where the iPhone, AWS, and Geico Would Rank.|url =http://fortune.com/2017/06/14/fortu
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• Knights of Columbus
  ...lumbus emblem consists of a shield mounted on a Formée cross. Mounted on the shield are a fasces, an anchor, and a dagger. |caption = [[Emblem]] of the Knights of Columbus
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• MetLife
  {{redirect|Metropolitan Life|the book by Fran Lebowitz|Metropolitan Life (book)}} {{For|the ''League of Legends'' player formerly known as Matlife|Matt Elento}}
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• Modern Woodmen of America
  ...n Rock Island, IL.jpg|thumb|250px|Headquarters along the Mississippi River in Rock Island, Illinois]] ..., similarly-styled fraternal benefit society, [[WoodmenLife]], and despite the name "Modern" is actually older than its counterpart.
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• Selective Insurance
  | location_country = United States ...ple = Gregory E. Murphy<br /><small>[[Board of directors|Chairman of the Board]], President, [[CEO]]</small>
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• Sun Life Financial
  | key_people = [[James H. Sutcliffe]], [[Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries|FIA]], Chairman <br>[[Dean A. Connor]], President an ...[[life insurance|life insurance companies]] in the world, and also one of the oldest with a history spanning back to 1865.
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• The Travelers Companies
  | name = The Travelers Companies, Inc. | logo = [[Image:The Travelers Companies.svg|Travelers logo]]
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• Bank of America
  ...rcial bank unaffiliated with the government|the central bank of the United States|Federal Reserve System}} ...[[Bank of America Tower (Manhattan)|Bank of America Tower]] (''pictured'') in [[New York City]] as a central hub.
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• Hurricane Rita
  {{for|other storms of the same name|Tropical Storm Rita (disambiguation)}} ...kening over land, Rita degenerated into a large [[low-pressure area]] over the lower [[Mississippi Valley]] by September&nbsp;26th.
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• Beaumont, Texas
  |map_caption = Location in the state of Texas |subdivision_name = {{flag|United States}}
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• October 2007 California wildfires
  Please do not upload photos you have taken yourself to the English Wikipedia. Instead, please upload them to Wikimedia Commons and place them in the photo gallery at:
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• Real estate trends
  ...oticeable change. This phenomenon can be a result of the economy, a change in [[Mortgage loan|mortgage]] rates, consumer speculations, or other fundament ...mation is not cited properly. Links listed below are no longer valid, thus the information is too.
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• Mortgage loan
  {{About|real estate mortgage lending|mortgages in general and their legal structure|Mortgage law|mortgage loans secured on sh ...condition, &c. And if he doth pay the money, then the pledge is dead as to the Tenant}}</ref>
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• Real estate bubble
  ...[[House|housing]] until they reach unsustainable levels and then decline. The questions of whether real estate bubbles can be identified and prevented, a ...arkets involve longer boom and bust periods. Prices decline slower because the real estate market is less liquid.
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• Real estate appraisal
  ...improvements to the home that can change its value. Appraisal reports form the basis for [[mortgage]] loans, settling [[Estate (land)|estates]] and divorc ...ommercial properties (e.g., income-producing, raw land) are often reported in narrative format and completed by a Certified General Appraiser.
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• Real estate investment trust
  ...opping center]]s, [[hotel]]s and [[Forest|timberlands]]. Some REITs engage in financing real estate. ...ard]] by S&P Dow Jones Indices and [[MSCI]]. The key statistics to examine the financial position and operation of a REIT are [[net asset value]] (NAV), [
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• Subprime mortgage crisis
  ...ng and then business investment. Spending reductions were more significant in areas with a combination of high household debt and larger housing price de ...gnificant disruption in the flow of credit to businesses and consumers and the onset of a severe global recession.<ref name="Zandi 2010"/>
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• Dubai
  {{About|the city}} ...: skyline with [[Burj Khalifa]]; [[Burj Al Arab]]; [[Palm Jumeirah]] and [[The World Islands]]; [[Dubai Marina]]; and [[Sheik Zayed Road]].<br>
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• Kazakhstan
  {{For|the Kazakh television station of the same name|Qazaqstan (channel)}} ...sruptive and POV issues. Feel free to reduce, but I don't see an end, thus the long term protection.|small=yes}}
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• Littleton, Colorado
  | native_name = <!-- for cities whose native name is not in English --> | settlement_type = [[List of cities and towns in Colorado#Home rule municipality|Home Rule Municipality]]
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• Microsoft
  ...to four sub-squares, colored red, green, yellow and blue (clockwise), with the company name appearing to its right. | image_caption = Building 17 on the [[Microsoft Redmond campus]] in [[Redmond, Washington]]
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• Programming language
  ...nguage)|C programming language]]. When [[compiled]] and run, it would give the output "[["Hello, World!" program|Hello, world!]]".]] ...ms (such as a player piano's scrolls) could not produce different behavior in response to some input or condition.
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• MediaWiki
  {{Selfref|For information about the usage of MediaWiki in Wikipedia, see [[Help:MediaWiki namespace]].}} | caption = The [[Main Page]] of the [[English Wikipedia]] running MediaWiki 1.24
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• Wikipedia
  {{hatnote|<!--See [[WP:ITSELF]]-->This article is about the online encyclopedia. For Wikipedia's home page, see {{srlink|Main Page|Wiki {{redirects here|The Free Encyclopedia|other encyclopedias|Lists of encyclopedias}}
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• Standard Industrial Classification
  ...r the United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification code system, see [[United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities]]}} ...The SIC system is also used by agencies in other countries, e.g., by the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Companies House]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.companieshou
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• United States
  ...isambiguation)|and|US (disambiguation)|and|USA (disambiguation)|and|United States (disambiguation)}} {{short description|federal republic in North America}}
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• Harvard Research
  ...title=The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U6hsNJjVn | free = ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]''
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• United States Department of Labor
  {{short description|U.S. Department that regulates the workers' rights and labor markets}} {{Infobox Government agency
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• Employment website
  ...r employment|job application]] or submit [[resume]]s over the Internet for the advertised position. ...Internet becomes an on-line opportunity for employers and job hunters”, The Washington Post, Nov. 7, 1993, pg. H2</ref>
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• Censorship of Wikipedia
  ...ption is to block the entire site, which resulted in some counties banning the site altogether, and others dropping their bans. {{further|Internet censorship in China}}
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• Chinese Wikipedia
  ...Chinese Wikipedia's Main Page screenshot.png|border|312px|alt=Main Page of the Chinese Wikipedia]] |caption = Main Page of the Chinese Wikipedia
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• Vandalism on Wikipedia
  {{short description|Act of editing Wikipedia in a malicious manner}} {{selfref|This is an article about vandalism on Wikipedia. For the Wikipedia policy on vandalism, see [[Wikipedia:Vandalism]], or to report re
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• College and university rankings
  ...of U.S. universities in particular|Rankings of universities in the United States}} ...ucation/resources/in-focus-articles/rankings/|title=Rankings - Education - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|website=www.unesc
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• PEST analysis
  ...strategic analysis or doing [[market research]], and gives an overview of the different macro-environmental factors to be taken into consideration. It is Variants that build on the PEST framework include:
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• Enterprise planning system
  An '''enterprise planning system''' covers the methods of planning for the internal and external factors that affect an [[Business|enterprise]]. ...ressing any event, opportunity or challenge in any one or many factors for the first time will involve [[project management]].
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• Enterprise resource planning
  ...('''ERP''') is the integrated management of core business processes, often in real-time and mediated by software and technology. ...|first=Zinovy |editor-last=Bidgoli |editor-first=Hossein |year=2004 |title=The Internet Encyclopedia, Volume 1 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |page=70
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• Cambridge, Massachusetts
  ...and Maria Stata Center]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], the Cambridge skyline and [[Charles River]] at night, and [[Cambridge, Massachu | map_caption = Location in [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Middlesex County]] (pink), Massachusetts
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• Providence, Rhode Island
  ...ist Church in America]]; Bottom: [[WaterFire]] at [[Waterplace Park]], and the [[Rhode Island State House]]. ...= The Creative Capital, Beehive of Industry, the Renaissance City, the Divine City, PVD, Prov
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• Big data
  {{About|large collections of data|the band|Big Data (band)|buying and selling of personal and consumer data|Surve ...{{cite web|url= http://www.martinhilbert.net/WorldInfoCapacity.html|title= The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Informa
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• Predictive analytics
  ...dwi.org/articles/2007/05/10/predictive-analytics.aspx?sc_lang=en|publisher=The Data Warehouse Institute|date=May 10, 2007}}</ref> ...tions.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Coker|first1=Frank|title=Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business |date=2014|publisher=Ambient Light Publishing|
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• Multiple listing service
  ...in a multiple listing service's database is the proprietary information of the broker who has obtained a listing agreement with a property's seller. According to the U.S. [[National Association of Realtors]]:
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• Ken Nwadike Jr.
  | caption = Nwadike in 2017 | birth_place = [[San Diego, California]], United States
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• Columbia University
  | native_name = Columbia University in the City of New York | motto = ''In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen'' ([[Latin]])
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• Cornell University
  {{for|the liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa|Cornell College}} ...free = "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."<br>—[[Ezra Cornell]], 1868<ref name=top_free/>
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• University of Pennsylvania
  | image_alt = Arms of the University of Pennsylvania ...Penn obtained its collegiate charter to add a post-secondary institution, the College of Philadelphia." Princeton's library [https://web.archive.org/web/
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• Yale University
  ...o = אורים ותמים ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]) ([[Urim and Thummim#In popular culture|Urim V'Thummim]])<br />Lux et veritas ([[Latin]]) ...lovey]]<ref name=nhregister23rdPres>{{cite news |title=Peter Salovey takes the helm as Yale's 23rd president |last=Shelton |first=Jim |work=New Haven Regi
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• Portal:Current events/2018 October 16
  ...0 [[Al-Shabaab (militant group)|al-Shabaab]] militants near [[Harardhere]] in central [[Somalia]]. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-45881008 (BBC ...ers.com/article/us-morocco-train/at-least-seven-killed-in-train-derailment-in-morocco-idUSKCN1MQ1DX (Reuters)]
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• Good Friday
  {{About|the holiday|the peace deal|Good Friday Agreement|other uses}} |date = The Friday immediately preceding [[Easter|Easter Sunday]]
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• Islam
  {{about|the religion|the history of Islamic civilization|History of Islam|other uses}} ...im|verbatim]] word of God, and the teachings and normative example (called the ''[[sunnah]]'', composed of accounts called ''[[hadith]]'') of Muhammad ([[
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• Buddhism
  {{redirect|Buddhadharma|the magazine|Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly}} <!--When editing the lead section keep in mind what a reader may want to know: what, who, where, when and how. Please
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• Baptism
  ...out|the Christian religious ceremony|other uses| Baptism (disambiguation)| the Baptist churches and denominations|Baptists}} {{Redirect|Baptized|the Daughtry album|Baptized (album)}}
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• Confirmation
  [[Image:LutheranClergy.JPG|thumb|right|A woodcut depicting the confirmation of [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] youth]] ...grace".<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3P.HTM Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1285] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/201106
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• Marriage
  NOTE: Please do not edit the lead ("lede") without prior consensus on the talk page. ...7.tif|thumb|Swedish royal wedding clothes from 1766 at [[Livrustkammaren]] in Stockholm]]
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• Rick Warren
  | caption = Rick Warren speaking at [[TED (conference)|TED]] in 2006 ...thors-tech-media_cz_lg_books06_1208authors.html |work=Forbes.com |title=By The Numbers: Top-Earning Authors |accessdate=January 10, 2009 |date=December 8,
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• Billy Graham
  | caption = Graham in April 1966 | alt = Graham in a suit with his fist clenched
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• Nondenominational Christianity
  ...en Pieces, Minersville PA 01.JPG|thumb|Church of Broken Pieces (est. 1982) in [[Minersville, Pennsylvania]], is a nondenominational church.]] ...elves—they had wanted to be truly Catholic and reformed." (MacCulloch, ''The Reformation: A History'', p. xxiv.)</ref> by calling themselves nondenomina
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• Christianity
  <!-- Article is written in American English. --> ...Christian" civilization.</ref> Early statements of essential beliefs were the [[Apostles Creed]] and [[Nicene Creed]].
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• Artificial intelligence
  ...cessfully achieving its goals.<ref name="Definition of AI"/> Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" ...automation, human inquiry is still essential to set up the system and ask the right questions.
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