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Unilever's international ice cream marketing strategy and competitive positioning

Unilever's competitors and how their company culture and/or strategic approach would be viewed by the strategists at Unilever

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Yoga's effects on musculoskeletal and mental health conditions

Often when people hear the word yoga they picture people coiled up painfully like pretzels or sitting with their legs crossed and chanting. Twisting and meditation are all part of the 5,000-year-old practice of yoga, but are really only small pieces of the yoga pie.

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Post-tenure review models in higher education and teacher accountability

The institution of tenure is designed to protect teachers against the various pitfalls of the educational profession, including political pressures, district resource shortfall and the host of other conditions which can threaten the stability of a teaching job.

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Herbs as antioxidants in disease prevention and healthy lifestyle

Just about everyone knows that diet and exercise play a vital role in overall good health. Just about everyone knows that fresh fruits and vegetables should play an important role in a healthy diet.

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Microsoft's antitrust cases and impact on stakeholders

The it&C community is gaining an important role within the contemporaneous society and pieces of evidence in this direction include the increased numbers of PC and laptop owners, as well as internet users.

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Switzerland's federal system, neutrality, and direct democracy

Switzerland, a federal republic in west central Europe, is officially known as the Swiss Confederation or Confoederatio Helvetica (Heatwole 2009). Its people are an ethnic mix, mainly of native German, French and Italian strains. They long labored to forge unity among themselves.

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Dimmeys house brand cookware strategy for competitive advantage

Dimmeys and Forges is a discount store operating across most of Australia. Dimmeys sells housewares and clothing. The company's model involves purchasing stock lots, which are lots that cannot be sold through normal distribution channels for a variety of reasons.

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Foreign Direct Investment trends in BRICs from 1996 to 2006

Today's buzzword is crisis, referring to the economic crisis which emerged within the United States of America to quickly expand to the other global regions.

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Distribution planning systems based on the traveling salesman problem

The work of Applegate, Bixby, Chvatal and Cook (2007) entitled: "The Traveling Salesman Problem" states the following: "Given a set of cities along with the cost of travel between each pair of them, the traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short, is to find the cheapest way of visiting all the…

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The most important historical events from the 1950s through the 1990s

Many consider the end of WWII to have ushered in the modern era in global politics. One reason for this is based on WWII as an end -- the end of Nazi politics in Europe and of European politics as dominating politics on a worldwide scale.

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