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years male: 73.18 years female: 72.75 years (1993 est.) Birth rate: 13.44 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $86 billion (1992 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5% (1992) *Ireland, Government Judicial branch: Supreme Court justices; has not received written confirmation of the

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• handpicking
• vindication
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