EADS/Airbus Government Ownership, Protection, Intervention & Subsidies: The Effect on American Free Enterprise and National Security

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97. Ibid.

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102. Ibid. p. 54.

103. Ibid. p. 52.

104. Ibid. p. 38 note 54.

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