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"ref": "1980, Teena Marie (lyrics and music), “I Need Your Lovin’”, in Irons in the Fire",
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"ref": "1988, Richard Nixon, “The Superpowers”, in 1999: Victory Without War, Simon and Schuster, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38",
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