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“I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.”

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Mark Mason is a professional announcer, with his specific birth and death dates unknown. more

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