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The airline industry has been subject of intense price competition since it was deregulated, and theresult has been a number of new carriers which specialize in regional service and no-frills operations.These carriers typically purchase older aircraft and often operate outside the industry-wide comp....

Website Additions Proposal
Abstract 502MotorSports.com is interested in making modifications to their website to increase the effectiveness and usability to its customers. This document is a proposal for making these changes using the SDLC process. 502MotorSports.com Website Additions In the online world of auto trade, ....

What is Strategy - Porters view
In summary, Porter state that a company implements operational effectiveness when it performs similar activities better than its competitors do, achieving this way, a competitive advantage and a level of differentiation. Porter emphasizes the importance of reaching Operational Effectiveness, and exp....

What makes IR a Discipline
Q1. What makes International Relations a discipline, and why did the discipline not develop in the 17th Century rather than in the early 20th Century? Introduction The journey of the modern man, which began in Africa, with a small band of hunter-gatherers, has come full circles, after nearly 8....

Women In The Military
Since the American Revolution, womens participation in the United States army has been a vital one. Whether in the position of a laundress, nurse, seamstress, cook, spy, or combatant, women in America have consistently made extraordinary efforts to serve their country. Recently, research has unc....

Womens Sufferage
WOMENS SUFFRAGE Because of the immeasurable millions of women who devised, unionized, lectured, wrote, demonstrated, lobbied, displayed, and broke new ground in every domain conceivable, our world is irrevocably modified. Women and men of our generation, and the ones that will follow us, wi....

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