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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains the twenty-six week summary financial information
extracted from APAC TeleServices, Inc. and Subsidiaries' 1998 second quarter
Form 10-Q and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such Form 10-Q
filing.
</LEGEND>
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