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<LEGEND>
     This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
     financial statements contained in the Registrant's Quarterly Report on
     Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2000, and is qualified in its
     entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>


                             
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