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<title><![CDATA[The China we made with a bad trade deal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's trip to China has occasioned a spate of articles documenting the increasingly unhappy yet apparently indissoluble marriage between the American and Chinese economies. As The Post's Keith Richburg wrote on Monday, those economies "have become inextricably intertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinks is particularly healthy." ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson on the Senate's sluggish pace]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The House has delivered. It has done what in American politics today is all but impossible: It has passed a major bill. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson on how the House and Senate health bills differ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The health-care reform bills emerging from the House and Senate, when melded and enacted, will constitute an epochal achievement: the near-universal provision of medical care to the American people. But the House version is clearly the more epochal, as the health coverage it provides is more universal, chiefly because it's more affordable. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Senate's health bill won't fill workers' pockets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ With Harry Reid's announcement Monday that he will send a bill containing a "public option" to the Senate floor, the biggest remaining difference between the pending Senate and House versions of health-care legislation may well come down to how to fund this $900 billion reform. On the House side, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed that the lion's share of funding come from a surtax on the wealthiest Americans -- individuals who make more than $500,000 a year or couples who make more than $1 million. Pelosi's surtax would raise an estimated $460 billion, more than half of health reform's projected decennial cost.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124204171" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124204171" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Where are the free-market champions? Not on Wall Street.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ As everybody knows, the two biggest battles on Capitol Hill -- reforming health care and regulating Wall Street -- have unleashed massive campaigns from the enemies of free markets. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Recovering the New Deal Ideal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A disquieting phrase has entered our economic lexicon: "new normal." The "new normal" economy that emerges from our recovery, many economists fear, won't look like the old normal, the American economy of the past couple of decades. It will look worse. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bringing Economic Theory Back Down to Earth]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ "The worldly philosophers" was economist Robert Heilbroner's term for such great economic thinkers as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter. Today's free-market economists, by contrast, aren't merely not philosophers. They're not even worldly. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For ACORN, Truth Lost Amid the Din]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ So what does ACORN actually do, anyway?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124207654" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124207654" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Labor's Chance to Strengthen Its Political Punch]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ At the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, American labor will see a changing of the guard. John Sweeney, head of the federation since 1995, is stepping down, and Rich Trumka, Sweeney's deputy for the past 14 years, is ascending to the presidency. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Unhappy Labor Day]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Labor Day 2009 is a terrible time to be an American worker. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Trade Test for Obama]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Sometime before Sept. 17, President Obama has to make a decision that will tell us a lot about his commitment to American manufacturing. By that date, Obama has to accept, reject or modify a recommendation from the International Trade Commission (ITC) to impose tariffs on the Chinese-made tires that are swamping the U.S. market. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kennedy's Death Ends an Era of Irish-American Leadership]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The death of Ted Kennedy precedes by three weeks the end of John Sweeney's 14-year tenure as president of the AFL-CIO. Together, these events signal the end of an epoch in American political history: that of Irish American leadership of the nation's liberal institutions and Democratic organizations.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124212602" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124212602" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Shrinking GOP Offers No Partner on Health Reform]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Charles Grassley was grumping as usual on MSNBC on Monday morning ("the government is a predator, not a competitor") when journalist Chuck Todd interrupted his rap with a serious question. If the Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan Gang of Six comes up with a compromise that you think is a good deal, Todd asked Grassley, "are you willing to be one of just three or four Republicans" to support that deal? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forging Recovery on the Assembly Line]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It was a line that spoke to, and for, a generation. In "The Graduate," the 1967 film that depicted a young man's inspection and, then, rejection of grown-up American society, Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin is given a one-word bit of career counseling by one of those shallow and corrupt grown-ups at a shallow and corrupt grown-up cocktail party: "Plastics." ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Filibuster Nation: GOP Is Disrupting a Productive Debate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Judging by the first public meetings on health-care reform that members of Congress have begun convening in their districts, America is in Second Coming time, in the William Butler Yeats sense. The best may or may not lack all conviction, as Yeats wrote in his classic poem, but the worst are sure as hell full of passionate intensity. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ignore the Senate Finance Committee's Health Reform Plan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Congress, it's now clear, is crafting two quite different kinds of health-care reform. And the day that President Obama has to choose between them grows near.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124216215" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124216215" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Blue Dogs' Can't-Do Attitude and the Health-Care Debate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Watching the centrist Democrats in Congress create more and more reasons why health care can't be fixed, I've been struck by a disquieting thought: Suppose our collective lack of response to Hurricane Katrina wasn't exceptional but, rather, the new normal in America. Suppose we can no longer address the major challenges confronting the nation. Suppose America is now the world's leading can't-do country. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Wall Street Apologize Like McNamara Did?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The death of Robert McNamara has confronted the architects of another massive national catastrophe with a challenge: Will they, like McNamara in his post-Vietnam agony, acknowledge their failings and confess the error of their ways? Will they come up with a list, as McNamara did, of what to do differently next time? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Health Care Reform: Where Is Obama's Army?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If you measure the Obama administration's campaign for health-care reform by its ability to win crucial support from major institutions, things are going swimmingly. Wal-Mart, which insures less than half of its million American employees, has endorsed the requirement that employers either cover their workers or pay into a public fund to subsidize coverage. The hospital industry and the drug companies have agreed to scale back their Medicare and Medicaid billings to make universal coverage more affordable. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[California: A Dream Decimated]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In Sacramento, they can hear the chimes at midnight. State legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have been told by State Controller John Chiang that he will be compelled to pay the state's bills with IOUs starting tomorrow unless they come up with a way to close California's mammoth $24 billion deficit.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124219905" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124219905" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[America's Growing Resolve for a Palestinian State]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has at last acknowledged, with caveats, the need to establish a Palestinian state. Actually, Netanyahu's Palestine is primarily caveats, with a dash of state thrown in for appearances' sake. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Europe's Social Democratic Countries Move Right]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ "The movement is everything; the final goal, nothing," Eduard Bernstein, the great German social democrat -- in many ways, the father of social democracy -- wrote in the late 19th century. Ironically, Bernstein remains one of the few socialist leaders who achieved his final goal, which was to persuade his fellow socialists to reject the fatal illusion of revolutionary transformation and to embrace instead the cause of day-to-day social democratic reform of capitalism. Marching, cautiously, under Bernstein's banner, the socialist, social democratic and labor parties of Europe managed over the subsequent century to create the continent's welfare state -- capitalism mitigated by universal benefits and worker rights. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Capitalists Only Beijing Could Love]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Marx railed against "the idiocy of rural life," by which he meant its isolation and its lack of social differentiation, but 20 years ago, it was that very "idiocy" on which the Chinese Communist Party depended to maintain its hold on power. Once Deng Xiaoping decided to suppress the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square by force, the challenge for the Chinese leadership was to find army units that wouldn't shy from shooting unarmed Chinese students. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Proposition 13 and the Roots of California's Budgetary Problems]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ To understand why the woes of California's economy threaten the nation's, we must understand the state's road to insolvency. The Age of Reagan did not commence with the Great Communicator's inauguration in 1981. For its real beginning, we need to go back to June 1978, when Californians went to the polls and enacted Proposition 13.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124224839" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124224839" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party Spirals Down]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The dizzying downward spiral of the Republican Party continues apace. Yesterday, the Pew Research Center released a survey showing that the percentage of Americans who answer to the name Republican is down to 22 percent -- about as low as a party can go in a two-party system. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Card Check and Gut Check: A Labor Test for Democrats]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If our nation was governed by business's version of democratic choice, we would hold elections to determine the winner, but nearly half the time the incumbent would remain in power even if he lost. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's Good for Chrysler: A Restructuring That Wall Street Could Use]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There's creative destruction -- economist Joseph Schumpeter's term for the normal churnings of capitalism -- and then there's destructive destruction. Anyone interested in the latter should pay close attention to the arguments being made in federal bankruptcy court by attorneys for the hedge funds that held out for more in the Chrysler bankruptcy deal. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Cutter and the Bank]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ "I don't regret any of the votes I've cast up here," says Phil Hare, a Democrat who was elected to represent a downstate Illinois district in the U.S. House in 2006. "But I'm getting close to regretting my vote for the first bank bailout."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124229193" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124229193" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Break Up the Banks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ This week in banking: ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Revolutionary Rush]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ According to a Rasmussen poll released last week, 37 percent of Americans under age 30 prefer capitalism, 33 percent prefer socialism and 30 percent are undecided. Among all Americans, 53 percent prefer capitalism, 20 percent prefer socialism and 27 percent are undecided. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Unifying Unions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Four years ago the American labor movement split asunder. Republicans, who controlled both Congress and the White House, were bent on privatizing Social Security, and liberals were in a slough of despond. Unions that made up about a third of the AFL-CIO's membership broke off to form a rival federation, with the keep-hope-alive name of Change to Win. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rendezvous With Not Much]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ "This generation," Franklin D. Roosevelt said of his contemporaries, "has a rendezvous with destiny."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124233456" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4825124233456" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Nationalization Option]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ You might think that having anted up $173 billion of our own money, we taxpayers would have some leverage at AIG, now that we own 80 percent of the shares. You might think that when chief executive Edward Liddy, a holdover appointee of Hank Paulson's, told Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner that he had just mailed $165 million of our money as  bonuses to the geniuses at the firm's financial products unit -- who probably did more on a per-banker basis to destroy global capitalism than any other kindred group -- that Geithner, upon hearing this news, would have responded, "Liddy, you're fired." ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building a Better Capitalism]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ So what kind of capitalism shall we craft? Now that the market fundamentalism to which we've adhered for the past 30 years has -- by its own criterion of increasing shareholder value -- totally failed? Now that Alan Greenspan has proclaimed himself "shocked" that "the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity" proved to be an illusion? ]]></description>
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