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     <LEGEND>
     This  schedule  contains  summary  financial   information  extracted  from
Titanium Metals  Corporation's  Consolidated  Financial Statements for the three
months  ended March 31, 2000 and is  qualified  in its  entirety by reference to
such Consolidated Financial Statements.

</LEGEND>
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