In their attempts to stem cut-throat price competition, railway leaders repeatedly formed cartels to set prices and allocate traffic. |
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He finds little evidence for effects of export cartels on export prices or volume. |
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Over there, they say, gigantic uncompetitive cartels have an incestuous relationship with government, leading to corruption at all levels. |
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First, the influence of producer cartels on prices of primary products can be great, and yet not reflect scarcity changes. |
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Unfortunately, the underworld still appealed to me, I ran hookers, drug cartels, dry-cleaners and printed funny money. |
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All the unions did was form cartels and use the threat of violence to keep competitors at bay and extort some wealth from the capitalists. |
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He is concerned that future elections could be decided by fraudulent voting manipulated by unscrupulous cartels and the like. |
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Want to know how governments act to crush independent business while protecting multinational oil cartels? |
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Mexican drug cartels have even offered a bounty for the killing of a U.S. law-enforcement officer. |
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These cartels often provided marketing and distribution services for members. |
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They have seized companies run by mobsters in the drywall, window-replacement, and painting industries to bust up cartels. |
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The 2005 budget also contains a temporary tax amnesties and an emphasis on the collection of arrears from powerful big business cartels. |
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Like all cartels, the IMF uses its oligopolistic power to pursue political objectives. |
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In the last 10 years, we have uncovered many cartels, many secret price fixing agreements. |
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He's a virtuoso of the narcocorrido genre, accordion-driven, blood-lusting ballads that lionize the exploits of Mexico's drug cartels. |
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Suspicious buyers could draw the wrong conclusions, equating cosy partnerships with greedy cartels. |
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She had to flee Guatemala to come to Canada after her work with trade unions put her in direct fire of the local cartels in her home country. |
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Drug cartels, terrorist cells, and guerilla movements all reproduce themselves as dictatorships in the end. |
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Symeonidis finds that industries without cartels have much higher advertising expenditures than cartelized industries. |
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The swirl of rumour includes reports that hold the powerful and influential drug cartels responsible. |
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One industry source claimed that price fixing and the operation of cartels was widespread in the business. |
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Both groups are known to work with and protect the drug cartels. |
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Past attempts to loosen the grip of taxi cartels have been thwarted by the industry. |
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Rumors swirled that the McStays had gone into Mexico and were involved in nefarious dealings with drug cartels. |
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International drug cartels constitute their own society in numerous ways. |
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The healthy effects of market competition may be offset by mergers, cartels, or price leadership understandings, most of which are legitimated or tolerated by government. |
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In the absence of a minimum support price, trade cartels in the towns have continued to profit by continuously lowering the price paid to the Gujjars. |
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All the better for international drug cartels whose capos would rather milk the state than overthrow it. |
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He has taken steps to ginger up competition, introducing criminal sanctions for businessmen trying to rig markets through cartels. |
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But over time, they enabled the government to get the upper hand against the cartels. |
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He is taken to task for not aggressively pursuing the politicians collaborating with the cartels. |
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Competition legislation should provide the authority with the power both to be lenient with defectors from cartels and to punish the rest. |
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Perhaps someone might say, that this was before, that he rose to power with the drug lords and the drug cartels, but now he is a nice guy. |
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The Commission's leniency policy has proved a very potent weapon to encourage companies to own up to cartels. |
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At least one used, less often, economic analysis to evaluate indirect evidence of cartels when direct evidence was lacking. |
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Substantial measures are required to boost and the stock of animal feed, control prices, and clamp down on cartels and speculation. |
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The splintering of the old cartels has also made it possible for anyone with enough ambition to get to the top. |
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The cartels undermine security and development, causing some people to make a dangerous wager in favour of legalization. |
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Like many other cartels, the Lombard cartel went through good times and less good times, and had to endure crises on occasion. |
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The drug economy is more than just mafia cartels buying estates, businesses and aircrafts. |
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We know that the industry also has cartels and that it is not a very gentlemanly business. |
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Both the Colombian drug cartels and the Vietcong made liberal use of car bombs to kill specific enemies and to sow chaos and fear. |
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The fact is that the world markets are dominated by cartels and oligopolies. |
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Co-optation, after all, is the preferred method of South America's drug cartels. |
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The Swiss system got rich over the years by taking money from drug cartels, arms dealers and all sorts of unsavoury organizations and people. |
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Most Mexican cartels tend to reserve their fiercest firepower for their criminal rivals. |
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The Commission has been able to detect a number of cartels on its own initiative. |
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We had the case of a young Mexican woman who was under threat from the drug cartels. |
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The Bureau is actively pursuing international cartels and engaged with its international counterparts on 19 files. |
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This was an important departure because cartels are a major threat to the interests of consumers and to the efficient operation of the economy. |
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The cartels also require the services of certain associated business entities to facilitate their business operations. |
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The Bureau will continue to work with antitrust agencies around the world to combat international cartels. |
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The discovery and sanctioning of cartels cannot be compared to the control of concentrations. |
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People sent her bits of information as a way for them to resist the hegemony of the cartels. |
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As long as the sun continues to shine and the wind to blow, the supply of renewables remains unaffected by foreign-oil cartels or greedy manipulators. |
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This milestone measure is a living tribute to the thousands of men and women who have lost their lives in pursuit of a world free of mafias, drug cartels and criminal gangs. |
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Since then, Mexican cartels have flooded New Mexico with cheap, high-quality product. |
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The Commission has reduced the fines imposed in the past where participants in cartels have played a reduced role in relation to the hard-core members. |
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At the end of the war, the Allies had forced the deconcentration of the coal and steel industries in Germany, and the break-up of the cartels that had restricted competition. |
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Each of the cartels owns one third of the shares of the seaport. |
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The Army's relatively good institutional reputation has been tattered, moreover, by its deepening involvement in the murky, multisided war against — and among — the cartels. |
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The Medellin and Cali cartels, operating out of Colombia, controlled much of the cocaine trade from Colombia to the United States and other countries. |
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It has nonetheless to be acknowledged that effective cooperation in combatting cartels is seriously hampered by the agencies' inability to exchange confidential information. |
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Payments of damages in civil-law actions which have the objective of recouping the damage caused by cartels to individual companies or consumers cannot be compared with public-law penalties for illegal conduct. |
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Several politicians have been targeted by drug cartels operating in the area. |
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Interdiction causes the extreme profits made by the drug cartels. |
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This stage was marked by increased violence as different cartels fought for control of export markets. |
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These confrontations were primarily between cartels and government institutions. |
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Throughout the 90's however, several factors led to the decline of these major cartels and to the rise of smaller Colombian cartels. |
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They do not have the scale to mount their own cartels, but appear to be evolving in the direction of independent mafia structures running their own rackets while renting out their specialised services to the 'narcos. |
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The risk that confidential information is made public would have negative effects on the uncovering of cartels and as a result on the possibility for victims to claim damages. |
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Indeed, in addition to the illicit activities of international drug cartels, the recent acts of piracy witnessed in the territorial waters of the subregion posed an unwelcome new security threat that must not be ignored. |
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Quite apart from the language, which is redolent of colonial times, what the poor countries, and particularly Africa, must be protected from above all, is these predators, the large cartels? |
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Moscow's food markets—notorious for ruthlessly enforced cartels were probably not the only ones in the world where the principles of Adam Smith were imperfectly applied. |
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Private cartels run rings round the regulators. |
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Moreover, as regards competition, what we are witnessing is more a powerful trend towards concentrations of companies and the establishment of a market of oligopolies and cartels rather than of a genuinely competitive market. |
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As a result, these cartels did not succeed in maintaining high prices for a period of more than a few years. |
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These policies of tolerance fostered the growing power of drug cartels in the Mexican economy and have made drug traders wealthier. |
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The corruption cartels created resulted in distrust of government by the Mexican public. |
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These cartels were thus able to raise prices right away, sometimes more than doubling prices. |
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What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society. |
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Drug cartels are using new methods in narcotics production and narcotics exportation, to avoid Ghanaian security agencies. |
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What is more, the fishermen will no longer accept being treated like delinquents of the sea by a Commission that is covering up for the real rogues that are the flags of convenience and the fishing industry cartels. |
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The strategy pursued by successive Mexican governments of going after criminal kingpins has resulted in numerous spectacular arrests and takedowns and weakened several important cartels. |
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Efforts are made by government to prevent the creation of monopolies and cartels. |
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Since these commercial strategies are well-known to shipping lines, it must be concluded that the core theory, even if it were applicable, provides no justification for cartels. |
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Many countries have competition laws that prohibit monopolies and cartels from forming. |
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While much progress had been made, significant challenges remained, such as the policing of borders to prevent the use of Sierra Leone as a transit country by drug cartels. |
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Many children are used by drug cartels to sell and carry drugs, guns, and other illegal substances because of their perception of innocence. |
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The trend towards aggressively prosecuting offending parties and imposing hefty fines to remove the profitability element of cartels and to serve as a deterrent to others is one that will undoubtedly continue. |
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Colombia's economic development is hindered by the violence of militias and drug cartels, as well as by the government's failure to guarantee basic human rights, including labour rights. |
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A statement of objections is a legal step in proceedings under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement, which ban cartels and other damaging concerted business practices. |
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Pursuing cartels has become a priority of the European Commission which seeks to inflict very substantial fines on enterprises which take part in them. |
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Cooperation among cartels expands their scope to distant markets and strengthens their abilities to evade detection by local law enforcement. |
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Perhaps what we really need is another trustbuster like Teddy Roosevelt to take on both the criminal and the corporate cartels. |
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The activities of the public authorities will continue to be of critical importance in, for example, bringing to light hidden anti-competitive practices such as price-fixing cartels. |
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Corruption in Mexico has contributed to the domination of Mexican cartels in the illicit drug trade. |
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Because distribution markets are imperfect: monopolies, cartels, etc. |
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During peak years of violent crime in the city, gun battles between rival cartels, and between cartels and the police, erupted in public. |
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Approximately 500 cities are directly engaged in drug trafficking and nearly 450,000 people are employed by drug cartels. |
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While these cartels bring violence and hazards into communities, they create jobs and provide income for its many members. |
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Major cartels saw growth due to a prominent set culture of Mexican society that created the means for drug capital. |
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Mexican drug cartels get wind of Walter's product. |
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The drug cartels are also very much involved in human smuggling. |
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The sheer heinousness of the cartels is going to make it politically difficult for any of the candidates to orchestrate something that looks on its face like a détente. |
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Once towns became industrialized, cartels such as the Sinaloa Cartel started to form and expand. |
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Working-class people and the poor find themselves in the line of fire because of a long, harsh, anti-popular attack by the EU, which aims to increase the profitability of its own cartels. |
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But the reaction of the cartels shows that they decided to act as if the authorities had taken that final step past the point of no return in a war 'genuinely' without mercy. |
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Many women in the lower levels of major drug cartels belong to a low economic class. |
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The relations between Cuban and Colombian organized crime remained strong until the 1970s, when Colombian cartels began to vie for power. |
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Lots of migrants move north to escape drug cartels and violence, but America's proximity to poor, patchily governed countries to its south is a business opportunity for criminals, too. |
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Furthermore, although my liberal philosophy does not sit well with interventionism on market prices, I am above all opposed to the laissez-faire, lax approach and to cartels being formed in a given economic sector. |
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It follows their record settlement with US regulators over accusations the bank allowed rogue states and drug cartels to launder billions. |
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Stacked upright inside the wall cavities, like corpses in an ancient catacomb, these are victims of the drug cartels that ply their unmerciful trade across the frontier. |
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As drug producers gained more power, they became more centralized and organized into what became drug cartels. |
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The interests of consumers and citizens in ensuring that secret cartels are detected and punished outweigh the interest in fining those undertakings that enable the Commission to detect and prohibit such practices. |
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The mobsters then stayed to organize cartels of truckers. |
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Slave commerce during the Late Middle Ages was mainly in the hands of Venetian and Genoese merchants and cartels, who were involved in the slave trade with the Golden Horde. |
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In this time period, there was an increase in activity of Caribbean cartels that led to the rise of an alternate route of smuggling through Mexico. |
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This ideal allowed for greater organization within the cartels. |
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This arrangement created immunity for the leaders of the drug cartels and allowed drug trafficking to grow under the protection of the government officials. |
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By the 1940s, the tie between the drug cartels and the PRI had solidified. |
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Based on a true story, the film tracks the life of stone-hearted hitman Richard Kuklinski, convicted in 1986 of murdering 100 men for various New York crime cartels. |
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As these smaller Colombian drug cartels grew in prevalence, several notable aspects of the Colombian society gave way for further development of the Colombian drug industry. |
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One strategy to keep prices high and to maintain profitability was for producers of the same good to collude with each other and form associations, also known as cartels. |
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The Syrian Lebanese drug cartels are the longest tenured drug cartel on the islands, having ridden the wave of cocaine exportation from the 1970s to the current day. |
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The insecurity due to individuals involved with drug cartels has cost the city of Acapulco its popularity among national and international tourists. |
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