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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
company's consolidated statements of operations, balance sheets and statements
of cash flows and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
consolidated financial statements contained within the Company's Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 1998.
</LEGEND>
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