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- An earlier version of this paper was read in the Fifth International Conference at the University of Durham (12–15 July 1993). I would like to thank here Dr Richard Maber, for his kind welcome, and Dr Stephen Clucas, Dr Sarah Hutton and Dr Malcolm Oster for their helpful comments. I am also particularly grateful to Dr Sarah Hutton, for having revised the final version of the paper.
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