The U.S. federal government needs to keep a price support under oil prices.

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Government support, the state of the world aviation industry, the price of oil, customer support, World Trade Organization rulings, the speed of technological progress in composite materials, the reaction of industry behemoths Boeing and Airbus are all known unknowables which cause considerable uncertainty to the board of Bombardier.

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In 1922, the League of Nations appointed a commissioner-general Alfred Zimmerman of the Netherlands to oversee in minute detail Austrian government policies and spending as the price for the financial support it was receiving from other governments (including Spain and Italy).

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