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        <footnote id="F1">Held in the Northrop Grumman Savings and Investment Plan, a qualified profit sharing plan, as of April 29, 2005.  Share totals with respect to the Plan are based upon unit accounting and therefore may reflect a decrease in units attributable to an individual though no disposition occurred.</footnote>
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