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Ban on private jets lifted from bailout program

Bank executives will get to fly their company jets after all.

Financial institutions that get assistance through the $700-billion Troubled Asset Relief Program had faced a provision that recipients of the money would be prohibited from owning or leasing private aircraft.

But Kansas is one of the nation's centers of aircraft manufacturing, and state lawmakers complained that the provision...

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