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   "text": "Microsoft lost relevance under Steve Ballmer because it optimized for short-term financial metrics instead of designing products for the next generation of consumers, even while sales tripled and profits doubled.",
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   "text": "The speed of post war Japanese legal reform demonstrates that large scale legal change is possible when strong political will and adequate resources are present, which locates the binding constraint on legal cleanup in will and resources rather than in feasibility.",
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