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    In India, Workers Find Humor in ‘Outsourced’

    Sun, 10/24/2010 - 23:08 EDT - NY Times
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    Employees in Gurgaon of UnitedLex of Kansas thought the heavily clichéd NBC sitcom was pretty funny.


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