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<LEGEND>
This schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted from Unaudited
Consolidated Balance Sheet and Consolidated Statement of Income and is qualified
in its entirety by reference to such Notes to Financial Statement.
</LEGEND>
       
                             
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