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The 1957 Apalachin meeting and the rise of organized crime enforcement

When New York state troopers broke up a meeting of organized crime figures in Apalachin, New York in 1957, state and federal crime fighting agencies felt that they found tangible proof of the existence of the Mafia.

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How managerial accountants create value for organizations

Managerial Accounting, simply put, is the procedure whereby we can classify, calculate, assess, understand, and transfer all the relevant data that is needed to help a company attain its short-term and long-term objectives. Managerial accounting can also be called cost accounting.

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English as a living, evolving language through history

To borrow from Robert McCrum, co-author of "The Story of English," English, which embodies a set of principles, has had a great influence on the world: "In a very real sense it contains, encoded within it, an innate declaration of independence.

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Digital DJ equipment and the Serato Scratch Live system

There was a time when learning how and becoming a DJ was a hard won professional decision. DJs had to create a collection, develop a following, do all their own marketing and most importantly learn about how to please a crowd with bumping beats that were reflective of the scene.

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Academic engagement of alumni at African universities for institutional sustainability

The work of Nkomo, Swartz, and Maja (2006) entitled: 'Within the Realm of Possibility": From Disadvantage to Development at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the North" states that African universities are facing "strategic dilemmas...in their quest for institutional sustainability…

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Social and political divisions in the pre-Revolutionary American colonies

The United States of America has a name that might be historically misleading. Though this year marks the two-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the current government of the country, the term "united" is still in some ways more of an ideal than a reality.

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Southwest Airlines' inspection violations and FAA regulatory reform

When Southwest Airlines reportedly flew dozens of airplanes for as long as 30 months past their required inspection dates, this infraction led to FAA changing the way it supervises inspectors.

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John Wesley Powell's linguistic classification of Native American tribes

Contrary to some citizens of the West who considered the Indians to be savages, John Wesley Powell saw the Native Americans as people. Powell perceived these people as part of a culture that had experienced a long human history, a culture of people who had to struggle to survive.

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Adult literacy levels and barriers in African-American communities

The modern definition of literacy extends beyond reading and writing. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 defines it as "an individual's ability to read, write, speak in English, compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job, in the family...

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The conquest and colonization of Mexico's disruption and exploitation

Historians of colonial Mexico are continually faced with the dilemma of what to emphasize; the resilience of indigenous culture or the disruption and exploitation that the conquest represented.

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