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McDonald's rise to dominance through Ray Kroc's franchise strategy

McDonald's and Burger King are both major chains and sell their hamburgers at an introductory price of 99 cents, a discount intended undercut consumer loyalty to the other chain's product. McDonald's introduces items such as the Big Mac in competition with Burger King's Whopper.

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The 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial election and Deval Patrick's victory

This year, the U.S. gubernatorial elections coincided with the mid-term elections of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. After the 2006 gubernatorial elections, the Democrats won 28 governorships, while the Republicans won 22.

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Transparency mechanisms in WTO trade negotiations and dispute settlement

In the past, mistrust and false pretence in matters of subsidies, hidden tariffs, and environmental issues between countries have caused trade negotiations to be delayed and even fail.

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Lily Bart and Emma Bovary: Society's constraints on female desire

Fate, Society & Determinism. In comparing the two heroines in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Lily and Emma, one cannot help but wonder if these two grandiose protagonists have anything in common.

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Research gaps in understanding female psychopathic offenders and psychopathy

CONCLUSION there are examples of scholarship on the subject of women offenders who are psychopathic - but much more needs to be done.

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China's WTO membership and economic integration into global trade

In 2001, China became one of the last countries to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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Government control of African-Americans through twentieth-century science and art

Evelyn Waugh noted in his "Conservative Manifesto" in Robbery Under Law (1940) that "inequalities of wealth and position are inevitable….Men naturally arrange themselves in a system of classes [and] such a system is necessary for any form of co-operative work, more particularly the work of keeping…

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Improving police-community trust through citizen surveys and public relations

When a police department is not living up to what the citizens believe is an effective level of service, there are a number of things that law enforcement can do to bolster its image in the community.

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Ideology and anarchy in Merriman's Dynamite Club

John Merriman makes the point early in the Dynamite Club that there exists "a gossamer thread connecting…Islamist fundamentalists and Emile Henry's circle."

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The relationship between gastronomy and hospitality management studies

A lot of time, effort and resources have been dedicated to the cause of predicting the future of the tourism industry. In this context, researchers have managed to find a strong link between the hospitality business and the tourism industry.

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