At the same time, over the past six and a half years, the special interests have had a field day at the expense of the middle class and hard-working families.

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Lockheed has recently won several major cyberwarfare awards at the expense of competitors, and seems to be a preferred destination for many specialists in the field.

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Although the ice-minus bacteria proved safe and effective at preventing frost damage in field trials, further research and commercialization were discouraged by the combination of onerous government regulation, the inflated expense of doing the experiments and the prospect of huge downstream costs of pesticide registration.

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This proposal creates an uneven playing field which caters to foreign competitors by allowing them to carry on business as usual, free of this added expense.

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