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"text": "1994, United States Committee on Armed Services. Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1995--S. 2182 (H. R. 4301).\nMaybe the analyses look all too cookie-cutterish. They seem to make things all too simple."
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"ref": "2005, Cynthia Anne Huff, editor, Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities, page 222",
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