He scrapped top management, merged all purchasing operations into Cemex's central system, replaced old-fashioned ledger and handwritten accounting systems with computers and linked the operations via satellite and telephone lines to Mexico.

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On the other side of the ledger, the total number of persons enrolled in the system and paying premiums declined by 0.9 percent to 68, 740, 000.

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