But this was a bit of an anomaly as I had built my trip to California around a tourism industry event, a sort of mini-conference, which in turn used a travel agency to book my ticket.

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If I write a ticket to an officer on another agency, and a mutual aid agreement causes us to work together in a major event, would I rather he or she get my back, or be thinking about that ticket I wrote them a few weeks ago?

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The proposal, which the FAA plans to unveil formally next week, will be part of a larger financing plan for the agency that includes fuel taxes and ticket taxes.

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Lieberberg gave no explanation of the nature of the technical problems that have hit the shows, but a spokesman for Lieberberg's agency said the 17, 000 ticket holders would get their money back.

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