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ran, a Florida-based shopping-center-development group, and she was devoted to both him and his firm. Even though we’ve had a steady rise in our stock price, we’ve been relying more and more on purchasing underperforming assets using floating-rate debt. Finally , Sarah thought. Offutt, the CEO, had named a time when they could meet.
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