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3/17/2010
The United States historically has been the dominant supplier of commercial transports -- airliners -- to the global market. As recently as 20 years ago, Boeing and other U.S. companies controlled 85% of the market. But in 1970, a group of European governments established
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Features
3/8/2010
Executive Summary
Recent developments have advanced the likelihood that voters in Puerto Rico may soon vote on a sequence of ballot initiatives that could result in the granting of statehood status. Should Puerto Rico
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9/14/2009
Issue Brief
The World Trade Organization has determined that European Union countries used illegal subsidies in enabling Airbus to build airliners that compete with planes made by Boeing. The practical effect of
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8/18/2009
Research Study
After dominating global industrial activity for a century, the United States is losing its edge in manufacturing to other nations. Over the last 30 years, manufacturing has fallen from a quarter to an
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