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His positive stance is based in part on the increasing efforts at simplifying back-office processes, lower raw material costs, and a better business mix.

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To dig up the raw material, process it, convert from oxide to fluoride to metal to iodide, to mix it with mercury, make their own light bulbs, all of this within each of the different 192 sets of national boundaries.

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