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Qualifying the buyer: home ownership versus renting decisions

There's an old saying in real estate sales, that an agent must "qualify the buyer." What this means is that before an agent decides to work with a prospective home buyer, the agent must ask certain questions about the buyer's financial status, employment history, wants and needs, before the agent…

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Review of Getting Results: Five Absolutes for High Performance

Meanwhile the book edited by Clinton O. Longenecker and Jack L. Simonetti -- Getting Results: Five Absolutes for High Performance -- has numerous practical, pragmatic and easy-to-follow guidelines on how to get the most from your workforce.

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The efficient markets hypothesis and behavioral finance during the 2007-2011 financial crisis

One of the most common challenges for investors is being able to consistently outperform the stock market averages. A controversial strategy that has been continually debated over the years is the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH).

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Global software development outsourcing best practices and challenges

Global software development continues to be a disruptive innovation that is re-ordering every facet of the software industry and its value chain.

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Judging Abraham Lincoln's racism by historical standards

Abraham Lincoln - Was Lincoln a racist? How should we judge the past? Reading about Abraham Lincoln's racism always has a shock and awe effect on any student of history.

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Building community involvement in healthcare through dialectical process and mutual aid

How would you proceed in developing a plan for building community involvement in health care in your community? How would you assess the situation? Who would you involve? Why?

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Social Security in the U.S. compared with Canada's system

Social Security in the U.S.: Better than CPP and OAS? According to a 2009 poll by the National Academy for Social Insurances, 2/3 of Americans would choose to strengthen the United States' Social Security System over using its revenues to balance the national deficit (Leigh, 2010).

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Historical patterns of drug addiction and abuse across cultures

Such addiction may have been known by other descriptions and may not have been known to be the result of something exactly identified as a drug but such use was still likely an addiction. The use of drugs has been recorded by historians for thousands of years (Crafts, 2009).

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Identifying factors that influence merger and acquisition waves

Mergers have been used for a wide range of purposes, including achieving a synergistic effect, breaking up corporations that have become too large and unwieldy, and to help companies expend their market share in other regions.

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NAPCAN's social marketing approach to child abuse prevention in Australia

The threat of child abuse is still very real within even our modern society. Child abuse and neglect is still a major issue within Australian society and politics.

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