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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1995-october-office-of-economic-conversion-and-information.html",
  "year": 1995,
  "month": "October",
  "monthNum": 10,
  "headline": "Office of Economic Conversion and Information",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "The Office of Economic Conversion and Information, a joint Pentagon and Commerce Department office, provides resources on military base closures including conversion projects, job loss projections, and guides for communities dealing with base shutdowns.",
  "keywords": [
    "bases",
    "conversion",
    "closure"
  ],
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    "Government & Politics",
    "Business & Economy",
    "Data & Databases"
  ],
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    "World Wide Web"
  ],
  "full_text": "The Office of Economic Conversion and Information, run jointly by the Pentagon and the Commerce Department, offers background on military base conversion projects, including speeches, testimony and press releases. It also offers a state-by-state rundown of the bases that have been shut down, projected numbers of lost jobs, and guides that may help you evaluate whether your local officials are doing everything they can when faced with a closing base. http://www.doc.gov/ecix/ecixhomepage.html",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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