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Monetary policy and fiscal policy during the Bush administration's economic recovery

During the campaign to the 2000 presidential election, the incumbent party had a list of economic achievements under its belt which included a record low of unemployment rates, a balanced budget -- even a surplus -- and a broad trend of rapid economic growth.

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How new words enter the working vernacular

Indeed, words have power and history has also shown that they have even been the source of costly wars and the peaceful settlements that ended them.

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The role of non-traditional families in modern American society

The family is central to human culture, yet the family, like so much else in modern society is changing. In times past, the family could be easily defined. It consisted of a married father, mother, and their children.

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Economic impacts of workplace nutrition on employee productivity

With the changing dynamics and demands of the business world it is important to alter the necessities provided to the employees. One of the recent focuses on an important necessity has been the nutritional intake of the employees within the workplace.

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Plato's ideal state compared with Soviet communist practice

The ideal state that Plato describes in what is arguably his best known work, the Republic, may seem horribly oppressive to the modern democratic mind.

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Intergovernmental relations and improving public service delivery

This objective of this work is to examine intergovernmental relations specifically as related to issues in public policy and to answer the question of 'what changes need to be made in the public administration and political systems in order for them to be more communicative and inter-related?'

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South Carolina's strategic role in the American Revolution

People are generally inclined to revolt when they feel that they are oppressed or when they are being taken advantage of. In time, there had been countless rebellions against unjust rulers, but one of the most significant examples of people wanting freedom is the American War of Independence.

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Leadership hierarchies in Orthodox Judaism, Roman Catholicism, and Shiite Islam

Some religions, such as certain sects of Protestantism, have a relatively unstructured leadership. However, three major religions, that of Orthodox Judaism, Roman Catholicism and Shiite Islam, have highly organized leadership bureaucracies.

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Testing geophysical methods to confirm plate tectonics on Mars

theories regarding plate tectonics, with the researcher contending that as Mars tectonics cannot currently be confirmed, more research, including two geophysical methods the researcher would utilize to test the *** theory of Mars tectonics need to be conducted.

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Cultural identity in Bless Me, Ultima and and the Earth Did Not Part

It is not possible to read Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, and Tomas Rivera's and the Earth Did Not Part without coming to the realization that cultural identity - education, family, and spiritual acculturation - has greatly influenced in a very real sense in the lives of the Chicano peoples…

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