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Barbour's unit gets 93% of its $8.4 billion in sales from the government, so declining federal IT budgets have hurt; her 2013 revenue and operating profits fell 5% and 6%, respectively.

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"They were all keen that the statue was in Govan because Mary Barbour lived here, she was a councillor of a ward here, and they just felt she belonged here," she said. "Women haven't been given a ...