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Revitalizing Hummer sales through product adaptation and market repositioning

The consumer version of the Hummer has been one of the strongest stories in the automotive world in the 2000s. The original consumer Hummer may not have sold well, but its visibility far outstripped its sales, a direct result of celebrity ownership and the ostentatious nature of the vehicle.

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The National Fire Plan's role in community preparedness and wildfire mitigation

In 2003, a survey of administrators of regulatory and voluntary wildfire risk reduction programs in the U.S. was conducted. The primary concerns of the chosen programs were vegetation management on private lands (Reams, Haines, & Renner et al., 2005). The survey examined the program's organization.

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Freud's theory of sublimation and American football

Freud Sublimation Football secretly believe that if one had the means of studying the sublimation of instincts as thoroughly as their repression, one might find quite natural psychological explanations which would render your humanitarian assumption unnecessary."

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The Berlin Wall and postwar Allied control of Germany

Even before the formal surrender of the Nazis in May of 1945, the former Allies had already settled into an uncomfortable peace that was more evident in Berlin, the German capital, than anywhere else.

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European court rulings on free speech and neo-Nazi materials compared to U.S. approach

EUROPEAN COURTS RELATING to FREE SPEECH and DISCUSSING MEIN KAMPF or NEO-NAZI IDEAS or ORGANIZATIONS, COMPARING to U.S. APPROACH and DISCUSSING POLICY IMPLICATIONS

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How cell phone service providers can appeal to baby boomers

Advertising creatives frequently distort representations of Boomers and other "real" people in TV commercials.

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Florida's debate over adopting a personal income tax

One potential new revenue source, common in most states, remains unthinkable and unmentionable in Florida: personal income tax."

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The relationship between strategic HRM practices and organizational performance

This study pointed out that while some association between HR policies and performance was obvious, there were no clearly defined factors as to why and how such an association existed. This, Purcell termed as the 'black box'.

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Geographical Information Systems and GPS in modern military operations

Today's technology has altered the face of modern warfare. Technology has made it possible for peacekeeping to play a bigger and more successful role, and serving as a deterrent to armed conflict. Unmanned drones are sent over war zones to detect and eliminate armed threats.

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Peer-to-peer file sharing and illegal music piracy

The focus of this work is on the impact that the development of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing model has had on the commercial e-music industry. Firstly, an overview of e-business and the evolution of the Internet are presented.

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