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History Final Howard
Test 5
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2011
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Students for a Democratic Society was formed
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primarily by white college students.
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In the 1960s, the radical group known as “Weathermen”
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were involved in college bombings that claimed several lives.
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The purpose of the 1969 Woodstock music festival was to
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express the ideals of the counterculture philosophy.
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In the 1950s, the federal “termination” policy as applied to American Indians sought to
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end their cultural distinctiveness.
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Founded in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM)
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focused on militant action.
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In 1973, American Indian activists occupied an old Indian battle site of
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Wounded Knee.
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The 1969 “Stonewall Riot” is to be associated with the civil rights movement for
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homosexuals
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Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, was named to the court by
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Ronald Reagan.
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The Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade (1973)
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was based on a new legal interpretation of privacy rights.
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Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, "Silent Spring" helped launch the modern environmental movement by focusing on the problems concerning
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pesticides
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The Environmental Protection Agency was created
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in 1970 by Richard Nixon.
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The intent of President Richard Nixon’s “Vietnamization” policy was to
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have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.
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In April 1970, the antiwar movement was recharged by
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the invasion by the United States of Cambodia.
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The so-called Pentagon Papers
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revealed the government had misled the public regarding the progress of the war.
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After the 1972 election, President Richard Nixon, to prompt a peace settlement with North Vietnam,
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ordered an increase in the aerial bombing of North Vietnam.
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The South Vietnam government in Saigon finally collapsed during the presidency of
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Gerald Ford.
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The Supreme Court case Engel v. Vitale (1962)
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ruled prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.
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In the 1972 presidential campaign, an assassin attempted to kill the candidate
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George Wallace.
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In 1971, President Richard Nixon responded to mounting economic problems by
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imposing a freeze on all wages and prices.
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In 1972, the Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the
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offices of the Democratic National Committee.
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By 1973, there was mounting evidence that President Richard Nixon had
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been part of the cover-up of the break-in.
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The key evidence in the determination of President Richard Nixon’s guilt or innocence in the Watergate scandal were
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audio tape recordings made of most conversations in the Oval Office.
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In 1974, Richard Nixon left the presidency after he
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resigned
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In 1973, the so-called “Saturday night massacre” involved President Richard Nixon’s firing of
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the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate case.
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In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s appointments to the Supreme Court
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were twice rejected by the Senate.
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The founders of Students for a Democratic Society could accurately be described as hippies.
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False
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An important and controversial aspect of the counterculture was its more permissive view of sex and drugs.
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True
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During the 1970s, Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
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True
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One intent of President Nixon’s “Vietnamization” policy was to limit domestic opposition to the war.
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True
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Shortly after the last Americans had left, both South Vietnam and Cambodia came under the control of brutal and repressive governments.
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True
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During the Ford administration,
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the cost of oil rose dramatically.
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In the 1976 presidential election,
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Ronald Reagan mounted a powerful challenge against President Ford.
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On the economic front, during the Carter administration,
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interest rates rose to their highest level in American history.
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In 1977, President Jimmy Carter supported treaties in which the United States gave up control of
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the Panama Canal.
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In 1979, Iranians who took American hostages demanded, in return for their release,
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the United States’ return of the shah of Iran.
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The crisis of American hostages being held in Iran
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lasted over one year.
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In the late 1970s, the “Christian Right”
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were alarmed by many Supreme Court rulings.
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As president, Ronald Reagan
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succeeded in making his personality a central feature of his presidency.
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The “supply-side” economic theory, embraced by President Ronald Reagan, called for
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a reduction of personal and corporate taxes.
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During President Ronald Reagan’s first term, the course of the American economy
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went through a severe recession which gave way to a strong recovery.
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President Ronald Reagan argued that the Strategic Defense Initiative would
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make nuclear war obsolete.
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Of the following, the Reagan Doctrine was most actively applied in the nation of
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Grenada
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In 1983, the Reagan administration responded to a terrorist bombing in Beirut of American marine barracks by
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withdrawing the remaining marines.
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The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s was encouraged by the Soviet policy of
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glasnost and perestroika.
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In 1988, George Bush’s presidential victory was the result of
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his repeated attack on his opponent’s “liberalism.”
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After the Gulf War, President George Bush’s high popularity quickly faded because of his
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inability to contain a worsening recession.
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In 1992, Ross Perot made the best third-party showing in American politics since
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Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
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In 1992, Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign focused on
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the condition of the economy.
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In tracing his relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan was
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initially skeptical, but gradually concluded that Gorbachev was a sincere reformer.
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In the late 1980s, challenges to communist rule were the least successful in
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China
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The Reagan Doctrine of opposing communism
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led the United States to intervene in several Latin American nations.
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During the Reagan presidency, “neo-conservatives”
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were engaged in a battle with the radical left to influence the American culture.
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As President, Gerald Ford angered many right-wing conservatives by
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appointing Nelson Rockefeller as vice president.
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In 1979, the United States responded to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan by
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imposing economic sanctions on the Soviet Union.
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As president, Jimmy Carter called for a foreign policy that stressed the importance of
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human rights.
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Richard Nixon was never charged for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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True
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Carter’s greatest foreign policy success was in arranging a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
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True
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The Reagan administration accumulated more debt in eight years than the American government had accumulated in its entire history.
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True
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President Ronald Reagan responded to the fiscal debt crisis by cutting spending programs intended to help poor Americans.
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True
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The Iran-contra scandal did serious damage to Reagan’s presidency.
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True
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As a result of the 1994 elections,
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Republicans won majorities in both houses of Congress.
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In late 1995 and early 1996, the public largely blamed a budget impasse that shut down the federal government on
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congressional Republicans.
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In 1998, the federal budget
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saw its first surplus in thirty years.
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In 1998, following charges that President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with a White House intern, his public approval rating
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rose to record levels and remained high.
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On December 19, 1998, the House voted on partisan lines to impeach President Clinton for
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lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice.
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On the day of the 2000 election,
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Al Gore won the popular vote.
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The 2000 election results were decided
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when the Supreme Court ended all efforts to recount the votes in Florida.
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In its first year in office, the Bush administration
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passed the largest tax cut in American history.
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In regards to the development of the personal computer,
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in the late 1970s, IBM hired Microsoft to design an operating system for its computers.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, the most divisive cultural issue in the United States was
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abortion
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In 2001, in regards to an international treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan to reduce emissions in the atmosphere, President George W. Bush
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unilaterally rejected the treaty.
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Since the 1970s, the primary goal of Islamic fundamentalists in the world has been to
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defend their traditional cultures from the West.
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In 2001, convinced that it harbored Al Qaeda terrorists, the United States attacked
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Afghanistan
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In 2002, President George W. Bush described an “axis of evil” made up of Iraq, Iran, and
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North Korea.
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In the 1990s and 2000s, opponents of globalization on the left charged the nation was
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using its military to advance its economic interests.
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In the 1990s, medical treatment for AIDS in the United States
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was unavailable for many poor victims.
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In the late 1980s, drug use began to decline significantly among
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middle-class Americans.
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In 1977, the first personal computer was introduced by
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Intel
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In 1971, the microprocessor was first introduced by
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Intel
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Beginning in April 2001, in the United States there was a significant drop in
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the value of technology stocks.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, American corporations became more competitive by reducing
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labor costs.
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The 1996 welfare reform law ended a fifty-year federal guarantee of assistance to families with dependent children.
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True
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Independent counsel Kenneth Starr was hired to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct by President Clinton.
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False
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Bill Clinton became the third president, after Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, to have an impeachment trial.
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False
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In the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore, the Court voted 5-4, dividing sharply along party and ideological lines.
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True
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With help from Republicans in Congress, George W. Bush won passage of the largest tax cut in American history.
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True
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