These losers were foreigners who had not paid taxes in their home countries on the amounts they invested with Bernie and, therefore, could not come forward to assert a claim without risking prosecution.

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Bowman himself stands in a peculiarly poor position to assert such a claim.

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The rapid and disruptive shift in the industry toward those business-driven themes have led Ellison to assert a bold claim: new competitive dynamics in the database sector will raise the stakes for Teradata and other relatively lower-profile players that have generally stayed under the radar of Oracle, IBM, and even Microsoft SQL Server.

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