Over three days, the Nokia employees sat on folding chairs and jotted notes on an array of paper easels.

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People vented--largely about the IRS phone system's automated help line, sometimes about the constitutionality of collecting taxes--and IRS agents listened, nodded sympathetically and jotted notes.

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In his tent, Butterfield jotted musical notes on the back of an envelope.

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