Yes, it would have been a practice. That's not to say it was a perfect process, but it certainly would have been a practice. And one would have expected numbers to have been very carefully examined.
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Yes, it would have been a practice. That's not to say it was a perfect process, but it certainly would have been a practice. And one would have expected numbers to have been very carefully examined.
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