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<LEGEND>
0 MEANS NOT APPLICABLE OR NOT SEPARATELY DISCLOSED. This schedule contains
summary financial information extracted from the Company's unaudited
consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2000 and the nine
months then ended and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
consolidated financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> ASSOCIATES CORPORATION OF NORTH AMERICA
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