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The RAND Corporation is an American think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the U.S. military. The organization has since
expanded to working with other governments and commercial organizations. RAND has around 1600 employees based at six sites: Santa Monica (California),
Arlington (Virginia), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), and in Europe: Leiden (The Netherlands), Berlin (Germany) and Cambridge (United Kingdom). Some
consider the corporation's name to be a contraction of the phrase "Research ANd Development". (Gen. Curtis LeMay quipped that RAND meant "Research
And No Development".)
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