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The evolving role of HR departments in strategic planning and recruitment

Are they part of the strategic planning team and process in your company?

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Targeting drug supply rather than street dealers in the war on drugs

The problem did not happen overnight and is not expected to be completely eradicated any time soon. As with any type of war, the core of the problem is what needs to be attack. Once this is done, then the things that are the result of the war should no longer exist.

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Functional foods, health claims, and public health nutrition debates

Functional foods refer to the notion that some foods are beneficial for one's health; they can promote health and prevent disease -- such as for instance yogurts that contain probiotic organisms that are claimed to be disease-preventing or margarines with phytosoterols that are alleged to help…

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Racial profiling and the Cincinnati police response

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Preventing insider trading by congressional staff and legislative aides

The recent global financial crisis, and the heavy government intervention that has followed it, has indicated that the U.S. Government is set to play a bigger role in the private sector than at any time in history.

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General Motors' recovery strategy following its 2009 bankruptcy

General Motors was taken over by the United States government in the spring of 2009 after filing the second-largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States.

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The evolution of American literary genres from naturalism to postmodernism

Twentieth Century Genres in American Literature: From Naturalism to Post-Modernism in Under Sixty Years The literary periods of the industrial (and perhaps the post-industrial, though this term is still quite controversial and fraught with implications beyond the scope of this paper) periods have…

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Ethical considerations of welfare assistance for undocumented immigrants

The American ideal is one predicated on self-determination, "pulling one up by their bootstraps" is the national calling for the United States.

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Political ecology and clean drinking water access in China

Environmental issues remain highly controversial and receive a lot of attention by today's media and today's politicians, with topics like global warming and the latest corporate environmental disaster -- whether it is oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico or some toxic cloud spewing into the…

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Ireland's mortgage crisis and systemic banking sector risk

Wall Street Journal editors David Enrich and Charles Forelee assess the health of the banking Irish sector.

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