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[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

NSF EXTENDS NETWORK CONTRACT. NSF has extended a contract with Merit Inc.
for managing the NSFNET backbone. The extension, worth as much as $15
million, gives NSF until April 1995 to implement its plan for reducing
government support of the network. (Chronicle of Higher Education 12/8/93
A17)