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"ref": "2014 October 1, Donnie Maclurcan, Jennifer Hinton, “Beyond capitalism: not-for-profit business ethos motivates sustainable behaviour”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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"ref": "2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:",
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"word": "營利"
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"word": "营利"
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