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<LEGEND>

     This schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from the
     Company's  unaudited  Consolidated  Statement of  Operations,  Consolidated
     Balance Sheet, and  Consolidated  Statement of Cash Flows, in each case for
     the three months ended September 30, 2000, and is qualified in its entirety
     by reference to such financial statements.

</LEGEND>
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