Not bad, but industrial bar codes are even longer and encode the entire alphabet.

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Taking advantage of industrial-age tax codes, these multinational giants are leveraging the digital realities of today's global economy to run rings around local tax collectors.

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Congress, however, is still blocking Britain's access to software codes which could threaten to curtail severely British industrial participation in what will be the world's biggest defence-procurement project.

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