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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and Statements of income as of
October 31, 1996 and the three month period then ended and is qualified in its
entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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