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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
financial statements of Farrel Corporation as of 10/1/00 and for the nine-month
period then ended and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> Farrel Corporation
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