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This project was suggested by Professor Derek J. S. Robinson while the author was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, 1986–1987. To him I express my gratitude for many suggestions and comments.
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Zhang, Z. Groups whose proper quotients are finite-by-nilpotent. Arch. Math 57, 521–530 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01199056
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