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"ref": "1999 January 8, jnrbaer, “Re: Beware of Trivial Progress”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet)",
"text": "On the professional end, some teachers can become disillusioned by the political game playing in public schools (you know, how certain teachers get promotions by \"assmosis\" rather than hard work).",
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