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"ref": "2002, Antonio A. Tujan, Globalizing Philippine Mining",
"text": "Unceremonious disappearance of Mina's city buses is the latest management scheme aimed to retrench and contractualize workers, according to drivers and conductors of the Mina's Transit Corporation.",
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},
{
"ref": "2006, Eugene McLaughlin, The New Policing",
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},
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