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Business and the City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Edward P. Duggan
Edward P. Duggan
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Director of Career Development, Goucher College
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Business History Review , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , Spring 1982 , pp. 76 - 83
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1982

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