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Center.<span> This is one of the times when there's power in numbers--your voice matters. </span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please pass this on within your firm.</span></font><br></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Assignments are currently under
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that additional burden. In the last 24 hours, I got several new anecdotes, see pages 15, 17-18, and 20-21. Consider the letter frozen--let me know if you spot typos (or substantive errors!) or if there's a wording that's just too harsh, but no more anecdotes.<br></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The signon spreadsheet is here:<span> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19cwBrFxvKmCpf9eWPfY_iQ6yHtj6flcsJz8iQdqXoQ8/edit?usp=sharing" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19cwBrFxvKmCpf9eWPfY_iQ6yHtj6flcsJz8iQdqXoQ8/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Deadline is October 3 (Thursday). I will close comments Thursday at 3PM.<br></span></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I welcome comments.<span>
</span>(Your help is more important this time than usual\u2014I don\u2019t use Assignment Center
extensively, so I am dependent on you to fact-check me.)</span></font></p>
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