"It's a matter of getting the contracting states around the table and acknowledging this is a serious issue: that the number of unruly passengers is on the rise and it needs to be decided how countries address this, " Steve Lott, former International Air Transport Association head of corporate communications in North America, told Orient Aviation magazine in 2010.

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The economies of a lot of countries, including the United States, were contracting at a severe pace.

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"Contractors we interviewed have filed for reimbursements from their contracting agencies to recover taxes paid to the Afghan government, " the report states.

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Wayne also travels around the United States providing small business presentations regarding Veterans small business laws and programs and federal government contracting issues.

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In a world in which such resources are certainly finite, and possibly contracting, they also have the effect of taking them off a global market upon which the United States is increasingly dependent.

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