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Preventing insider trading by congressional staff and legislative aides

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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

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Political ecology and clean drinking water access in China

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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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Methods of assessing rental property values using regression and neural networks

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Marriott's expansion strategy and financial benefits in China

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Nanoparticles as plaque-reducing agents in arterial disease treatment

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Healing and trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved

While we like to believe that we are responsible for everything in our lives, especially as adults, there are external circumstances that often complicate matters and make life more challenging.

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