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National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2004 Matt Hudgins	It Pays for Corporate Execs to be Strategists Pay for top corporate real estate officers spiked 9% in 2003. And one reason for the increase is that they are being asked to do "more than just management work ... so they are woth more."
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