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		<title>Planning for the future: good gas mileage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think your hybrid gets great gas mileage now, wait until you hear what is planned for the future! Car manufacturers will be required to increase the mileage gained from each gallon to anywhere between 47 to 65 miles per gallon, as stated by the Department of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The comeback of America Online from the ashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are old like me, you probably remember the days of America Online in the &#8217;90s. AOL was one of the first companies to introduce Internet to millions of people. I was one of such people. Some referred to AOL as Internet with wheels because it was a starting point for many individuals that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should colleges mandate attendance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had to write an article regarding whether attendance should be mandatory for first and second year college students. I chose to take the view that it should not be for various reasons. First, consider that being at college is a choice. It is not like high school where a person has to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing alcohol price or tax will hurt businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the gloomy look of economy, there are people who still do not understand the implications of their actions. Recently, I have been coming across ideas to increase either the price of alcohol or the taxes levied on the sale of alcoholic beverages. While it is understandable that some people want to reduce consumption through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the recession over? Some like to think so</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the recession has been over since June 2009. I guess the rest of us are just living in a dream world where jobs are being lost day after day and the cost of everything is rising. Maybe it is only a matter of time when everything will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great marketers appeal to people&#8217;s emotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that an average person is shown 2,500 advertisements everyday? How many of them do you remember? Probably not many as most of us have become numb to them and just tune them out. Businesses that have the money devote extreme amounts of resources to understanding what makes people remember an advertisement. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your business targeting the right demographics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a million ways to segment the type of consumers you want to market your products to. For example, demographic segmentation (age, gender, income, ethnic, family-life cycle). Although marketing to specific age groups is a well understood concept by many, still there is a need for more information on this subject. For example, big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will banks do with foreclosure properties?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the collapse of the housing market a few years ago, banks have been foreclosing on properties left and right. In today&#8217;s news, Yahoo is reporting that US homes foreclosures are up 25 percent since last August. What this means is that lenders took back more homes in August than at any other time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The effects of currency exchange on international business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the invent of transportation and information systems, we have made the world a much smaller place. Businesses are expanding their operations across borders everyday and things can be moved across the planet within 24 hours on jet planes roaring across the skies. Freight trains move relentlessly day and night on carefully woven webs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online education deprives students of many options</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that online education is the next big thing. Universities are saving money by offering courses online rather than in person. Some do it due to lack of space on campus. They need to somehow accommodate the thousands of students that need similar courses. Others do it because it is convenient for [...]]]></description>
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