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Andrew McLaughlin, “Google Goes to Washington”,
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Alex Fitzpatrick, “Google Spends More on Lobbying than Apple, Facebook, Microsoft Combined”,
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Henry Juszkiewicz, “Gibson’s Fight Against Criminalizing Capitalism”,
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Rob Bluey, “Months After Federal Raid, Gibson Guitar Still Faces No Charges”,
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James Oliphant, “Labor Board Drops Complaint Against Boeing overS.C. Plant”,
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Marcia Fritz, “Put Pension Reform in California to the vote”,
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Joseph M. Hayes, “California’s Changing Prison Population”, Public Policy Institute of California, April 2012, http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=702; Chris Megerian, “Officials Announce Sweeping Overhaul of California Prisons”,
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“Amazon: eBook Sales Surpass Printed Books”,
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Ben Sisario, “Radio Royalty Deal Offers Hope for Industrywide Pact”,
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Trefis Team, “Sirius XM and Sound Exchange Square off in the Battle over Royalty Rates”,
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