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Customer loyalty programs: effects on profit and market share

In today's economy, companies must examine every avenue to gain and retain their portion of the market share. They must continue to expand their customer base, but they must also concentrate on keeping existing customers.

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Treating childhood emotional abuse through object relations, attachment, and self-psychology

This final chapter, the Conclusion, recounts the dissertation process, along with a final review of Shania's case.

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Contradictions and perfection in D.J. Waldie's Holy Land

The thematic thread of Holy Land, by D.J. Waldie is the contrasting representation of the world as something that can be contrived and look perfect on the surface, while at the same time be on the brink of total upheaval.

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Mercantilism, Napoleon, and the sans-culottes in revolutionary France

Mercantilism was a direction of economic thinking that promoted governmental control over industry and trade in the interest of national strength. National strength was to increase, with government-regulated exports being greater in volume than imports.

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Implementing acquisition reform through the Joint Direct Attack Munition program

Given the early Phase II in the JDAM program, critically assess and evaluate the transformation decisions, strategies, processes, and techniques the government and industry leaders used to implement Acquisition Reform.

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Threat assessment and planning for controversial public figures

Personal protection encompasses many different considerations and threat assessments that are completely unrelated to the physical condition, personal reputation and character of the protectee, as well as very specific (possibly unique) threats particular to the individual.

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Richard Wright's "The Man Who Went to Chicago" and the Great Depression

Some decades are named after the type of zeitgeist that existed during the period, and the "Gay Nineties" of the late 19th century and the "Roaring Twenties" of the early 20th century, for example, need little explanation to understand what was taking place during this period in American history.

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act's impact on annual reports and strategic planning processes

It is a new era of transparency and compliance in accounting practices within public and private companies, and this is completely changing the role of annual reports and strategic plans.

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Conformity and rebellion in Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft's book a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was written as a response to the proposed state-supported system of public education that would only educate girls to be housewives, a proposal made by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, the French minister of education…

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Semiotic analysis of symbolism in Don McLean's American Pie

Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols employed in communications and the process through which signs and symbols come to develop their shared meaning among those who recognize and understand their intended message.

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