pendência = holdover (from our glossary)

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Nexus Publishing
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Lowen Systems Oracle
The historical limit of data server management was partly a technical holdover driven by customer practices during the expensive, mainframe era, ...
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Review, buy Household Cleaning: UNISAN committee owning, 3M, Texas ...
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