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... Bernard Bierman, a New York translation agency owner and a director of the American Translators Association has estimated that the commercial translation agencies in the United States do about $7.5 million worth of business each year. When this figure is added to the $13 million spent by the government, the sum is 9
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... Thus the estimate of the amount of money spent on translation would be raised to approximately $22 million.
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