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  • Or take that bureaucrat on the dais with his gavel.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be a single file of nit-picking bureaucrats from Pondicherry to Minneapolis via Delhi and Washington, each with his form, his problem, his hesitation.†   (source)
  • I was haunted by my helpless bureaucratic demurrals in the face of his desperation and the silence of his response.†   (source)
  • Sometimes that meant throwing up bureaucratic roadblocks; at other times it meant telling tourists only what was good for them to know.†   (source)
  • Damned bureaucracy is all it is.†   (source)
  • Was he simply being a bureaucrat who didn't like the fact that a name had been crossed out without his official permission?†   (source)
  • Cranky bureaucrats, men with itchy collars and high-pitched voices, suggesting that this looks like a bad loan, and this and this, saying in pained voices that a banker who co-signs his neighbor's loan—which Bud'd often done for Gene Lutz and which he, now, torments himself thinking he should do for Darrel—is getting that farmer in a tougher spot than if he were to point out in a no-options voice, "No way you can make all these payments."†   (source)
  • I want to add that I'm obviously getting an education in bureaucracy every time she moves her mouth, but instead I say: "I'm interested in seeing what a presentation looks like, and it's my understanding that these things would be part of the public record."†   (source)
  • She knew well there had to be such forms of bureaucratic supposition.†   (source)
  • But a committee of faceless bureaucrats back on Earth?†   (source)
  • Honestly, in the governmental bureaucracy of Winter Park High School, Jasper Hanson was like Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Athletics and Malfeasance.†   (source)
  • But colleges, particularly small liberal arts colleges like Reed, tend not to be rigid bureaucracies.†   (source)
  • They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.†   (source)
  • Andy's mother, with her understated jewelry and her not-quite-interested smile—the kind of woman who could get on the phone with the mayor if she needed a favor — seemed to operate somehow above the constraints of New York City bureaucracy.†   (source)
  • Add another fifteen minutes of bureaucracy before I reached the nurse who wrote that report.†   (source)
  • Thisadministrator of trade is the worst sort of bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • The bureaucracy.†   (source)
  • Every year the mighty bureaucratic dinosaur known as the New York City Public School System would belch forth a tiny diamond: they slipped a little notice to parents giving them the opportunity to have their kids bused to different school districts if they wanted; but there was a limited time to enroll, a short window of opportunity that lasted only a few days.†   (source)
  • The worst case would be Henri being questioned, maybe fingerprinted, thrust into the sluggish-paced bureaucracy, which would give the Mogadorians the chance to move.†   (source)
  • The Temple bureaucracy would not answer his calls.†   (source)
  • The experience cut him deeply, in particular the fact his competence lay exposed to the review of a bureaucrat over whom he had no influence.†   (source)
  • "Now more than ever," he said, but now more condescending than before, "Washington is trying to save money, and is disinclined to build vast new bureaucracies from scratch.†   (source)
  • Uncle Enzo has serious doubts about this fellow He is a blazer person, adept at running the smalltime bureaucracy of a Nova Sicila franchulate, but lacking in the kind of flexibility that, for example, Y.T. has.†   (source)
  • The welter of competing bureaucracies leads to confusion, gaps in enforcement, and numerous food safety absurdities.†   (source)
  • When Dad first became principal, there were no funds due to the massive bureaucratic maze he had to get through to get them.†   (source)
  • Timur's father had told them that they would have to "maneuver" through the infamously sluggish, ponderous Afghan bureaucracy—a euphemism for "find the right palms to grease."†   (source)
  • The people in the greatest need of help, Lowery realized, were not about to fill out forms, keep appointments or trust anyone remotely associated with a mental health service, particularly since many of them had endured mind-boggling bureaucracy or had been force-fed medication that made them feel like slugs.†   (source)
  • I leaned against her desk as she told me, in great bureaucratic detail, about a blood thinner she can't afford—the woman is an encyclopedia of denied pharmaceuticals—and then I said, just to test the situation: "I know what you mean.†   (source)
  • Vicious bureaucrats get under my skin.†   (source)
  • But it is perennially short of money, and like most parts of the United Nations it is infamously, inevitably, tangled in bureaucracy.†   (source)
  • She knew the bureaucratic archives inside out.†   (source)
  • …only reached out to that girl, if only, if only … Found painted on the lawn of the house lot where the White bungalow had been located: CARRIE WHITE IS BURNING FOR HER SINS JESUS NEVER FAILS From "Telekinesis: Analysis and Aftermath" (Science Yearbook, 1981), by Dean D. L. McGuffin: In conclusion, I would like to point out the grave risk authorities are taking by burying the Carrie White affair under the bureaucratic mat-and I am speaking specifically of the so-called White Commission.†   (source)
  • I sensed that this went far beyond a bureaucratic problem with our passports.†   (source)
  • He had no money at all that day, was waiting for a check which was mysteriously entangled in one of the bureaucratic webs of the French cinema industry.†   (source)
  • C. J. Peters could swim through a bureaucracy like a shark.†   (source)
  • Beatrice's husband was a paymaster, a midlevel bureaucrat whose job entailed handing out wages to employees of the former government, and the men at the door wanted whatever cash he could access.†   (source)
  • Somewhere within the monstrous bureaucracy of the Bureau of Prisons, this all made tense to someone.†   (source)
  • In a case like this the bureaucratic mind finds it most easy to do nothing.†   (source)
  • What good's a rumor that deals with bureaucratic details?†   (source)
  • The United Nations and the aid bureaucracies have undertaken a relentless search for technical solutions--including improved vaccines and new processes for boring wells--and those are important.†   (source)
  • It was a centralized stovepipe command structure with the Secretary of the Army at the top and special agents at the bottom, with three layers of bureaucracy in between.†   (source)
  • Time was critical, though, given the bureaucratic process.†   (source)
  • But along with the city's electricity and phone system, its bureaucracy was out of order.†   (source)
  • To many students, school felt sterile and bureaucratic.†   (source)
  • Their bureaucratic rationale dumbfounded the Marine general: "due to limitations on the availability of ships, difficulties of ammunition replacement, and the loss of surprise."†   (source)
  • He spent four days rushing from one office to the next, in a series of desperate maneuvers that all ran up against the same wall of bureaucratic incomprehension.†   (source)
  • The beltway around the city was jammed last night and this morning as the army of lawyers, lobbyists, journalists, and assorted bureaucrats escaped to cooler locales in the mountains of Virginia, the Maryland shore, or favored spots up the coastline to Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.†   (source)
  • I might've handled the clerk with a softer touch, but Emma had no patience for the self-important authority of petty bureaucrats.†   (source)
  • They're bureaucrats.†   (source)
  • Even if we do report this, how long will it take for the bureaucracy to work?†   (source)
  • After butting heads with the Memphis bureaucracy, Ozzie was about to quit when he remembered something he should have thought of sooner.†   (source)
  • He could fix just about anything made of metal, he understood bureaucracy, and after clearing jungles full of enemy soldiers, nothing in a factory scared him.†   (source)
  • Why should I worry over bureaucrats, blind men?†   (source)
  • She'd have to rely on public transportation or just hook a car from the police garage and pay the bureaucratic price later.†   (source)
  • Not as well and too bureaucratically.†   (source)
  • There were government programs providing assistance, though never enough and always with the measure of humiliation that bureaucrats dished out with a hateful—and often unconscious—generosity.†   (source)
  • All of the bureaucracy was gone.†   (source)
  • Because Richter's nothing but a bureaucrat!†   (source)
  • My brother Peter, an engineering major, spent the better part of the spring semester appealing the school's denial of his high school language credit, an issue on which he found himself growing more irritated with the bureaucracy with the passing of each day.†   (source)
  • Her goal is nothing less than to transform the White House from the very large home of a bureaucrat into a presidential palace.†   (source)
  • Did you read about the scabby little bureaucrat who wanted them to sue me?†   (source)
  • Government bureaucrats that run these things don't understand mountain people.†   (source)
  • This rumor came from a rather hypocritical liberal who graduated in the midfifties and is presently a bureaucrat in Washington.†   (source)
  • Publicly, they created a bureaucracy that supported the tenets of the treaty.†   (source)
  • A guard had told Alessandro and Ludovico that if Stella Maris had been close to the bureaucracy the toll would have been sixty a day.†   (source)
  • There are expenses in addition to having several civil bureaucracies.†   (source)
  • …fathom, however, and as is often the case in life, he did not have the same charisma, and while the presence of Dr. Bassiouni, with his strange appearance, had an effect on people, Dr. Mansour, despite the care he took to wear a three-piece suit summer and winter, resembled, at best, a middle-ranking bureaucrat, meaning that while with his graying hair, his glasses, his good manners, and his soft voice, he was undeniably a respectable person, he was also never anything more than that.†   (source)
  • Money or not, Hong Kong Bank notes were backed by honest Chinee bankers instead of being fiat of bureaucracy.†   (source)
  • The Iraqi leafed through the pages with an air of bureaucratic distraction.†   (source)
  • To most people in a bureaucracy, the main thing is that they've got a steady paycheck, because who ever lays off a bureaucrat?†   (source)
  • The only thing I actually learned during this period was that, by comparison with the bureaucratic hierarchy in Ottawa, the scientific hierarchy was a brotherhood of anarchy.†   (source)
  • Looks like they had to reach way down and find a minor league bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.†   (source)
  • It must have been a wicked blow to him to get not a moment's attention, to gain no bureaucratic ear.†   (source)
  • This bureaucracy, for reasons still obscure, had decided that my posture was a disgrace and had to be corrected.†   (source)
  • But the man was, after all, a fair man; a bureaucracy is a bureaucracy; and a couple of brown envelopes did arrive for me, unseasonably, not as part of the autumn rush, choking the pigeonholes in the porter's lodge, but like the last dead leaves of the year, torn away by the gales of January.†   (source)
  • Bureaucracy.†   (source)
  • To Leanias these lapses from anonymity signified the involuntary identification of the Abteilung with bureaucracy.†   (source)
  • Bureaucracy, Mr. Garrett.†   (source)
  • (Marc continues acting as the bureaucrat, but he now speaks as himself)   (source)
    bureaucrat = a nonelective government official
  • He discards the letter; bureaucrat hands him another.   (source)
  • Marc enters, dressed as a bureaucrat, holding a stack of papers.   (source)
  • Good bureaucracies develop effective procedures; bad ones are so preoccupied with rigid procedure that they lose sight of ultimate goals.
    bureaucracies = complicated administrative systems
  • And I'd be miserable working as a state bureaucrat, she insists.†   (source)
  • For like any good bureaucrat, he knew how to type with his eyes closed.†   (source)
  • They fell into a maze of paperwork and bureaucrats.†   (source)
  • It seemed to us that these bureaucrats came to our province simply to get rich, then went back home.†   (source)
  • Bureaucratic daylight: pedestrian morning blaring, bright with threat.†   (source)
  • Bureaucratic mentality had not changed in several millenniums.†   (source)
  • "They will tear apart his files," added the cautious bureaucrat, stiffly getting to his feet.†   (source)
  • But before you approach him, you have to follow the bureaucratic procedure.†   (source)
  • Many chesty bureaucrats with interchangeable heads.†   (source)
  • I'm not paid by the bureaucrats for doing this-I am doing it without gain.†   (source)
  • The European turned from the window and looked at the bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • Which nobody likes but bureaucrats hate more than most.†   (source)
  • They're bureaucrats in search of direction!†   (source)
  • For all its Islamic fervor, Osama bin Laden's creation was a highly bureaucratic enterprise.†   (source)
  • A seaman belongs at sea, not tied alongside, overrun with bureaucrats and workmen with dirty boots.†   (source)
  • When my counselor Butorsky suddenly left, I feared another bureaucratic nightmare.†   (source)
  • "Entire bureaucracies exist to do just that," Alessandro protested.†   (source)
  • She had only a token maintenance crew while the Pentagon bureaucrats debated her future.†   (source)
  • I have no patience with those bureaucratic females who bark like chows.†   (source)
  • The technicians are the source, not the bureaucrats behind the desks.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she was keen to finalize the bureaucratic procedure.†   (source)
  • He wanted to call back in fifteen minutes, but I played the harried bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • "We do not have flight characteristics data on it," Bureaucrat Two said pointedly.†   (source)
  • "It was I," said Lillian softly, "who informed the bureaucrats about my husband's adultery."†   (source)
  • When there was bureaucratic dirty work to be done, invariably it was Bouchard who saw to it.†   (source)
  • Then one, the obviously cautious bureaucrat who had closed the door, spoke.†   (source)
  • There were, of course, hosts of bureaucrats but most of them carried out tasks set by the AIs.†   (source)
  • The announcement was thirty words in length and a masterpiece of bureaucratic murk.†   (source)
  • A brilliant bureaucrat kept in the back room, wouldn't you also say?†   (source)
  • It was just that sort of bureaucratic procedure I wanted to avoid.†   (source)
  • "It may not last, period," said the bureaucrat emphatically.†   (source)
  • No one in Leningrad wants a finger pointed at him from a bureaucrat in Moscow.†   (source)
  • It's all left to us — the performers and the professional bureaucrats.†   (source)
  • Jason shouted in guttural, bureaucratic French, as he rushed up into view.†   (source)
  • So we're bound to observe the bureaucratic procedures."†   (source)
  • "It's the bureaucrats in D.C. that see their phony baloney jobs on the line that don't like us."†   (source)
  • Death by the hands of an amateur, an embittered bureaucrat who wanted his moment in the sun.†   (source)
  • Not bureaucratic less-than-money, but real money.†   (source)
  • She recognized him —he was one of them, one of the bureaucrats!†   (source)
  • Thanks to a frightened bureaucrat, they'll do anything I ask.†   (source)
  • Again Jason looked down at the meticulous bureaucrat at his side.†   (source)
  • Or had a frustrated bureaucrat's moment in the sun ended in perpetual darkness.†   (source)
  • 'Two points for a brilliant bureaucrat,' said Jason.†   (source)
  • If you touch him I'll blow you out of the bureaucratic water?†   (source)
  • And even those bureaucrats in the control service wouldn't dispute that you've proved the land.†   (source)
  • Hoss is just another susceptible bureaucrat with a blocked-up itch for a female body.†   (source)
  • I think you know who he is and have been dragging your feet from bureaucratic arrogance.†   (source)
  • It was the lair of a bureaucrat with priestly sensibilities.†   (source)
  • A revealing bureaucratic matter is involved here.†   (source)
  • But guiding Everest is a very loosely regulated business, administered by byzantine Third World bureaucracies spectacularly illequipped to assess qualifications of guides or clients.†   (source)
  • It seemed a little "admin" or bureaucratic—coat-and-tie stuff, to use a civilian workplace metaphor.†   (source)
  • The Cepan are bureaucrats, meant to keep the planet running, meant to teach, meant to train new Garde how to understand and manipulate their powers.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the Ministry of Health bureaucrats felt insulted by many of the internationalists—among others, by Alex, as Farmer pointed out.†   (source)
  • The perennial crop failures in the Soviet Union were attributed to a highly centralized system run by distant bureaucrats.†   (source)
  • But three months ago Palmgren had had a stroke, and Nils Erik Bjurman had inherited her in accordance with some bureaucratic pecking order.†   (source)
  • He went on to say that this was in honor of three middle-level bureaucrats in the old Survey Service.†   (source)
  • Considering that he has lived through five or six languages, five or six countries, two or three centuries of history; has seen his country, city, and family butchered, bargained with pirates and bureaucrats, eaten filth in order to stay alive; that he has survived every degradation known to this century, considering all those liabilities, isn't it amazing that he can read a Condensed and Simplified for Modern Students edition of A Tale of Two Cities?†   (source)
  • When, for instance, "tbmi" (transnational bureaucrats managing inequality) produced clever arguments (also known as "well-formed stool") against treating mdr or AIDS, one could simply say, "Love, id," and be completely understood.†   (source)
  • The technocats and bureaucrats and ecocrats were thawed and let loose upon the unsuspecting world and Sad King Billy's dream came one step closer to reality.†   (source)
  • You're sometimes stupid and maddeningly bureaucratic, but you're actually an attractive man, and…I can also feel…But you're my boss and I've met your wife and I want to keep my job with you, and the most idiotic thing I could do is get involved with you."†   (source)
  • According to Vasily, this nine-year-old with straight blond hair was the daughter of a widowed Ukrainian bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • Officials from who's tb division would be on hand, along with many bureaucrats and public health specialists and medical school professors, all members of the confederacy of people who had made tb control the principal work of their lives.†   (source)
  • BB worked in Hegemony Flow Control Records and Statistics and spent most of his life reclining on a free-fall couch with half a dozen microleads running from his skull while he communed with other bureaucrats in datumplane.†   (source)
  • Within the walls of a small, drab office in an especially bureaucratic branch of government, it is generally difficult to accurately imagine the world outside.†   (source)
  • He had sent me a copy of his latest book, Infections and Inequalities, a prodigiously footnoted discourse with case studies of individual patients to illustrate its main themes—the connections between poverty and disease, the maldistribution of medical technologies in the world, and "the immodest claims of causality" that scholars and health bureaucrats had offered for those phenomena.†   (source)
  • Though Sofia was only staying with the Count for a matter of weeks, there was always the possibility that, before Nina's return, some bureaucrat would become aware of her residency and forbid it….†   (source)
  • Having initially struggled to get anyone of influence on the phone, in April the American began securing face-to-face meetings with senior bureaucrats in every conceivable branch of government.†   (source)
  • …on mdr patients in Peru, which he had to read and respond to carefully; worried and worrisome messages about projects in which pih was involved, in Russia and Chiapas and Guatemala and Roxbury; affectionate greetings and requests for advice from priests and nuns and anthropologists and health bureaucrats and fellow doctors, in Cuba, London, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Paris, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa; and always a few queries like this: "Just a wrench to throw in your head.†   (source)
  • Here was the greatcoat of a soldier with a dusting of snow on its shoulders; here the woolen jacket of a bureaucrat still damp; and here was a black mink coat with a collar of ermine (or was it sable?†   (source)
  • For instance, the World Health Organization bureaucrats stationed in Moscow resented the intrusion on their turf of nongovernmental organizations, such as pih and Soros's foundation, which itself, according to Alex, contained competing factions, because Soros liked to create competition inside his own organizations.†   (source)
  • Dressed in a dark gray suit, the Chief Administrator might have been described as relatively indistinguishable when compared to any other balding bureaucrat in his early sixties, were it not for the scar above his left ear where, by all appearances, someone had once attempted to cleave his skull.†   (source)
  • Incompetents and liars, manipulators and self-serving protectors of corrupt bureaucracies — and conceivably worse, far worse.†   (source)
  • In between is a ten-mile-long supply column, supervised by General Richard "Fighting Dick" Anderson and General Richard Ewell, a veteran soldier with just one leg who oversees a scrappy band of bureaucrats, frontline veterans, and landlocked sailors who escaped from Richmond just days earlier.†   (source)
  • War is coming, and our Director clings to process and procedure like every lousy bureaucrat before her.†   (source)
  • —he displayed deft skills as a bureaucratic obstructionist that further belied his reputation as a simpleton.†   (source)
  • At any rate, the legions of Dantesque bureaucrats whom I visited in their gloomy, Formalin-smelling dens, where they spent interminable hours compiling dreary data or originating meaningless memos, did nothing to rouse in me much devotion to my new employment.†   (source)
  • And Bjurman had presented the matter as though he was only trying to take a shortcut through the plodding bureaucratic procedure in which everything was stamped "confidential" and hush-hush and could drag on for months.†   (source)
  • As the Oxford University economist Paul Collier has noted, that merger of standards and bureaucracies would create a larger common market for tariff-free import of African manufactured goods.†   (source)
  • His mouth tightened with bureaucratic indignation as he prepared to initiate the rites of excommunication from the Corps of Cadets.†   (source)
  • Moody journeyed to the passport office, spending the entire day there, frustrated by long lines and bureaucratic ineptitude.†   (source)
  • The figures you have been looking at show the present circumstances …. and the disaster they will produce in only a few years through drainage of Luna's natural resources—disaster which these Authority bureaucrats—or should I say 'authoritarian bureaucrats?†   (source)
  • He had trimmed his beautiful beard and was dressed in a bureaucrat's gray suit and a faded tie of the same color.†   (source)
  • With my limited understanding of Farsi I could tell that there was some sort of problem and that Moody was brandishing his medical authority in order to cut through bureaucratic insistence.†   (source)
  • Here was a woman who lived outside the bureaucratic needs of male desire, outside the detailed ceremonies and horny hands.†   (source)
  • United Nations agencies tend to be inefficient and bureaucratic, far less nimble and cost-effective than private aid groups, and probably do more for the photocopier industry than for the world's neediest--but they're still irreplaceable.†   (source)
  • She slept on the mattress in the apartment for three weeks while she investigated clinics for plastic surgery, straightened out a number of unresolved bureaucratic details (including a nighttime talk with a certain lawyer, Nils Bjurman), and paid in advance for the rent at her old place, as well as the electricity bills and other monthly expenses.†   (source)
  • I had actually killed a bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • …too busy with another war, barely noticed that nature had gone berserk in that remote corner of the globe, but even so shiploads of medicine, blankets, food, and building material arrived, all of which disappeared in the mysterious labyrinths of various bureaucracies and were still available for purchase years later, when canned vegetables from the United States and powdered milk from Europe could be bought in the most exclusive stores at the same price as any other gourmet food.†   (source)
  • Rather, they were assigned to it—the refugees by resettlement officials they never met, the townspeople by a faraway bureaucratic apparatus that decided, almost haphazardly, to put a sampling of people from all over the world in the modest little boat locals thought they had claimed for themselves.†   (source)
  • It's a kind of sacrilege, in modern times, that the walls be breached between the common soldier and the bureaucrats and clerks who send him to his death.†   (source)
  • I was here on a serious charge, a homicide by whatever name, destruction of life under whatever bureaucratic label, and this was where I belonged, confined upstate, but the people who put me here were trifling with my mind.†   (source)
  • After all, it doesn't make any difference to the poor whether their livelihood is at the mercy of an industrialist or of a bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • "Charlie, you tell Greer to teach this lad a few lessons—like how a bureaucrat ain't supposed to stick his neck this far out on the block.†   (source)
  • Supremely frustrated, across the street from freedom yet a bureaucratic world away, I hung up the phone and told the manager that I had to wait until morning to see someone at the embassy.†   (source)
  • Next day, on November 1, he received a telephone call from Washington, from a bureaucrat whose voice seemed to come sliding down the wire on its knees in protestations of apology.†   (source)
  • …Hoover went, some who were loyal supporters, others residing in the files, a few who were enemies-for-life but didn't know it yet, and Edgar and Clyde were in a mellow enough mood, despite reports from the site, seated in the plush rear seat in black tie of course and wearing their masks, like a suave and jaunty crime fighter out of the Sunday comics, a master bureaucrat by day who becomes dashing Maskman at night, cruising the streets in formal dress with his trusted right-hand man.†   (source)
  • Though sometimes she laughed as he told her of his efforts to find a place in ministries swollen with bureaucrats, her laughter had ended sadly, and in the fraction of a second between these states they would search one another with their eyes.†   (source)
  • The bureaucrats know best!†   (source)
  • "Power corrupts, of course"-she smiled-"and no one knows it better than a ranking bureaucrat whom banks and corporations pursue for a recommendation.†   (source)
  • Francke was a bit of a cowboy who saw KGB agents everywhere, and Vinge was a bureaucrat of the old school.†   (source)
  • When they were in the limo and, temporarily, out of the clutches of bureaucrats, Tyler heaved a relieved sigh.†   (source)
  • "Just hold it," said the bureaucrat.†   (source)
  • When the whole extent of the conspiracy finally dawned on him, he decided to withdraw all charges against Salander, and that decision meant that a raft of bureaucratic formalities could be set aside.†   (source)
  • To most people in a bureaucracy, the main thing is that they've got a steady paycheck, because who ever lays off a bureaucrat?†   (source)
  • Therefore, the only practical thing for you to do is to help us keep our secret and get us to help you keep yours-and, as I'm sure you realize, we are fully able to keep any of the bureaucrats safely off your trail for as long as we wish," "What event, what secret and what trail?"†   (source)
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