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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from Titanium
Metals Corporation's Consolidated Financial Statements for the twelve months
ended December 31, 1998 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
Consolidated Financial Statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> TITANIUM METALS CORPORATION
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