MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Diplomats Help Push Sales of Jetliners on the Global Market
By artappraiser on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 1:06am |By Eric Lipton, Nicola Clark and Andrew W. Lehren, New York Times, January 2, 2010
Sales campaigns for commercial jets on the global market often include politicking and cajoling at the highest levels of government.
...This is the high-stakes, international bazaar for large commercial jets, where tens of billions of dollars are on the line, along with hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs....
...To a greater degree than previously known, diplomats are a big part of the sales force, according to hundreds of cables released by Wikileaks...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/business/03wikileaks-boeing.html?ref=todayspaper
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