Bill Clinton, who is not French, and who came into office calling for the discontinuance of heavy echelons in favor of power projection, simultaneously pressed for a severe reduction in aircraft carriers, the sine qua non of power projection.

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But here is some good news even with the high rate of business discontinuance a special study of the available GEM data was performed by researchers Jolanda Hessels, Isabel Grilo, Roy Thurik and Peter van der Zwan.

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