If the Chinese government pressures the country's big airlines, which are state-owned, to buy the C919, it will be especially bad news for Airbus, which is pinning more of its hopes for future growth on Asia than Boeing is, and has established a production line for the A320 in Tianjin.

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Robert imported a line of lower-priced lookalike utility footwear from Asia, and the Greenbergs put the name Skechers on them.

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