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Labor Unions: The End, or Just the Beginning? The history of labor unions has been a rollercoaster of alternating growth and decline.

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Samsung's expansion and manufacturing strategy in Brazil

The South Korean company Samsung began operations in Brazil in December 1986 when it opened a representation office. Since them Samsung has invested a total of U.S.$300 million, employs almost 1,000 staff members and has a revenue of above U.S.$500 million.

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Regulation of wetlands in the United States: definition and history

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Managerial likeability and connectedness in the international workplace

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Technical analysis profitability in silver markets under efficient market hypothesis

The thesis is for the study of simple commonly used technical trading rules, which are applied on silver market. It covers years 1989 to 2005.

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Commodity futures as a hedge and diversification tool for Norwegian investors

Are there potential risk reduction and diversification opportunities in adding commodities to a Norwegian investor's asset portfolio?

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Diversity management and organizational productivity in American corporations

Diversity management is a stratagem which contributes actively in encouraging the conception, recognition and implementation of diversity in the operations of different corporations and institutions.

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Muhammad Ali Pasha's reforms and modernization of Egypt

By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the purely archaic and oriental structure of earlier Ottoman society had disappeared; its final period was described in the eighteen twenties by the Englishman Lane, in his classic Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians.

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Capital requirements and credit risk behavior in Arab African International Bank

The research will mainly dwell on the capital requirements and risk behavior of banks, more in particular the credit risk. The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the relationship between capital requirements and the risk behavior of banks in Egypt

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Teacher professional conduct and superintendent disciplinary decisions

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society - President Theodore Roosevelt. That teaching is at one and the same time an intellectual as well as a moral endeavor, is an idea that is well entrenched in the minds of men since centuries past.

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