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The Trade Federation maintained a sizable monopoly on interstellar trade and held considerable sway in the Galactic Republic, even managing to gain a seat in the Senate on the same level as a member world, represented by Lott Dod. In particular, they held maps of hyperspace routes closely rather than sharing them, enabling them to cement their hold over trade routes. Only the Jedi and the Office of the Supreme Chancellor were able to maintain maps of similar quality.
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The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world's air sports federation, was founded in 1905.It is a non-governmental and non-profit making international organisation with the basic aim of furthering aeronautical and astronautical activities worldwide. Ever growing, FAI is now an organisation of some 100 member countries.
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The Trade Federation may well be modeled after the British East India Company, which possessed an amazing amount of political power in the Western world in the nineteenth century. The Company was so influential, it was actually able to dictate where Great Britain—the most powerful country in the world at the time—sent her troops.
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Coaching ... comes under the control of the Federation with active teachers registered, tested and reviewed as to their ability. Regular training courses are organised with at least two major coaching seminars held in Europe a year. It is a fact that in recent years the British skaters have not enjoyed the success that their predecessors achieved, in many cases this could be attributed to lack of reasonable facilities, and a considerable lack of financial support. There is also the fact that other wealthy nations have been able to invest in concentrated training programmes, to in the end, find world recognition and success.
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This ground-breaking research is being presented at "Experimental Biology '99," the meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) in Washington, D.C., on April 20. It ... was published in the April 16 issue of Life Sciences (an international biomedical journal that is distributed to more than 30,000 researchers around the world).
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Education is a vital element within the Federation. This is achieved informally through the regular meetings and discussions conducted by its member societies; ... formally through the many courses on family history organised around the world. A list of speakers prepared to talk on family history, heraldry or allied topics is available from the Federation.
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