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Found yet another bug in chapter processing (during merges). Changed merge behavior to favor incoming object structure. Refactored base class merge to not rely on __dict__

Fixed subtle property accessor bug in Gcisbase class stemming from excessive cleverness creating attributes and properties on subclasses.
Added assertions to test suite

Refactored date handling in Dataset from __init__ to properties to make handling available throughout object lifecycle; added test cases for same