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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
2090
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 11:17 am: |   |
It appears our good friends, the French, are having some problems with their
new baby! What do you think that is all about?
Note: Cue in six thousand web sites explaining that it is a covert operation by the Bush White House here! |
Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
3359
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 04:12 pm: | |
I hear they're also having issues (along with their partners Nothrup Grumman) in not wanting to tell the USAF how much they receive in government subsidies, as a requirement of bidding on a new air refueling tanker.
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Northrop-EADS Want a Rule Change: One of the two leading contenders in the tanker replacement game—the Northrop Grumman-EADS team—would like the Air Force to reconsider requiring companies to list what government subsidies they receive when it reviews proposals for a new tanker, according to Reuters news service. However, the fact that the Air Force requested the information pleased many US lawmakers, who feel EADS has an unfair advantage over its US competitor Boeing since EADS receives subsidies from European governments.
see also: http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-06-09T203750Z_01_N09420022_RTRIDST_0_ARMS-USA-TANKER.XML&rpc=66
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