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    <h3>Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)</h3>
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                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1379">INVESTMENTS - Non-Current Investments (Details)</a></li>
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                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1381">LONG-TERM DEBT LONG-TERM DEBT - Long-Term Debt (Details)</a></li>
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                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1394">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Reconciliation of Benefit Obligations, Plan Assets and Funded Status of Pension Plans (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1395">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Narrative (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1396">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Net Periodic Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Costs (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1397">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Contributions During Fiscal Year (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1398">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Amounts of AOCI Expected to be Recognized in Net Periodic Benefit Costs (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1399">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Weighted-Average Assumptions for Principal Retirement and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1400">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Weighted Average Asset Allocation and Target Allocation (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1401">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Fair Value Allocation of Plan Assets (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1402">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Changes in Fair Value of Level 3 Plan Assets (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1403">PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT PLANS - Benefit Payments Expected to be Paid (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1404">ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - Change in AOCI by Component, Net of Tax (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1405">ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - Components of AOCI (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1406">ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - Reclassifications out of AOCI (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1407">INCOME TAXES - Provision for Income Taxes (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1408">INCOME TAXES - Narrative (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1409">INCOME TAXES - Reconciliation of Federal Statutory Tax Rate to Consolidated Effective Tax Rate (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1410">INCOME TAXES - Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1411">INCOME TAXES - Changes in Gross Unrecognized Tax Benefits (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1412">COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1413">ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1414">SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1415">SEGMENT INFORMATION - Information about the Company's Segments (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1416">SEGMENT INFORMATION - Information about the Company's Operations by Geographic Area (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1417">ACQUISITIONS - Narrative (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1418">ACQUISITIONS ACQUISITIONS - Summary of Unaudited Pro-Forma Information (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1419">GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS - Goodwill Attributable to Each Segment (Details)</a></li>
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                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1421">GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS - Narrative (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1422">RELATED PARTY TRANSACTION RELATED PARTY TRANSACTION - Narrative (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1423">SUPPLEMENTARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Details)</a></li>
                                                            <li><a href="/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/xbrl_doc_only/1424">SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS (Details)</a></li>
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