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The Adjustment Back into the Role of a Student

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In the following paper 'The Adjustment Back into the Role of a Student' the author is writing this letter in order to apologize and explain why he failed to maintain a 3.... GPA this semester.... This particular semester was a very difficult one for him.... ... ... ... The author states that he feels secure in asserting that the problems he had in maintaining his GPA were based on situations that he will be able to overcome in the future and he is looking forward to a vast improvement in his performance in the fall....

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The Influence of Marxian Economics

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In the paper 'The Influence of Marxian Economics' the author focuses on the economic theories of Karl Marx.... The prevailing capitalist ideology has influenced all aspects of the delivery of information to conspire against Marxian economics by obfuscating its finer qualities.... ... ... ... The author states that from the government to the media to the educational system, one may well make an argument the greatest political success in the western world in the 20th century was the total branding of Marxian economics as a demon....

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Magnet Safety in MRI

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The author of this essay "Magnet Safety in MRI" casts light on the employment of MRI.... It is mentioned here that MRI is mainly used to diagnose tumors in softer tissues in human body parts.... Mainly it is used to look into the brain.... ... ... ... There have been many such studies regarding this issue and different types of conclusions were drawn from such studies....

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President Clinton's Crime Policy

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Politics are a dirty business.... People will often say whatever they think people want to hear in order to get elected.... Once in office, we tend to see candidate's promises melt away into wishy-washy ideas that may or may not actually take tangible form.... This often happens in politics.... ... ...

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Collision Regulations: English Channel

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In the paper 'Collision Regulations: English Channel' the author discusses the vessel volumes through the English Channel and around the UK coasts.... It is estimated that nearly 200,000 vessel transits occur per annum.... It is obvious that regulations must be administered.... ... ... ... The author states that international regulations regarding the collision of vessels stipulate the norms to be followed by all the vessels, whether it is big, power-driven, or not....

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Welfare state in Great Britain

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Welfare state as a political and economic ideology has a long historical background, but in the second half of the 20th century the system of welfare state was developed in some countries including Great Britain.... Welfare state has two main components: economic and social.... ... ... ... After the World War II British economic and social system had to be reformed,and the government began to take appropriate measures to improve the situation....

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Why We Must Tell Lies

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While somewhere on a greater moral plane we are taught that lying is "wrong," the fact is that Western Civilization as James Beniger asserts could be reduced to chaos without lies.... Humans develop their ability to lie at a very early age.... The average two-year-old is a liar, perhaps not a proficient and accomplished liar yet, but a liar nonetheless....

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Writing Assignment

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The changing business climate in several business sectors, and the recent economic downturn has given EDS an opportunity to reevaluate our personnel requirements.... As a global leader, EDS has been able to endure these hard economic times because of our most important asset, our employees.... ... ...

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Ronaldo part of Real's global marketing plan

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Carefully scrutinizing Real Madrid's marketing plan for the past years, we are untitled to believe that the soccer team is not only aiming to recognition of its talented members.... After Zinedine Zidane and Luis Figo, Ronaldo joined in 2002 the bench of the famous team.... ... ... ... It is not surprising that these three players won the Golden Ball, the European award granted to the best player of the year in a European club....

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Scholarship: Potential To Be A Leader

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A paper "Scholarship: Potential To Be A Leader" claims that it gives a great feeling when I find over 100 youth participating in programs.... I was elected to the Jr.... Board of Directors of the Hereford Association.... It is worthwhile here to mention that 20 youth ran across the state for three positions....

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Musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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In the paper 'Musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' the author analyzes the movie, which tells the adventures of an eccentric professor who invents wacky machinery, to little gain, until he comes up with the revolutionary car.... A hostile power becomes mean and nasty in its attempts to acquire the car....

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Correcting My Pronunciation

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In the following essay 'Correcting My Pronunciation' the author discusses the case when in order for Jessica to check her mistakes, she could be paired with another student to take turns listening to each other in the presence of a teacher.... ... ... ... The author states that each student should pay attention to his/her counterpart sentences to ensure that each sentence includes a subject and a verb....

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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

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The paper 'A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner' discusses one of the most critically-acclaimed short stories in literature.... This short gothic story was written by William Faulkner.... The piece, with its richness in essential text, could be discussed along with the subject of literary elements....

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On the Credit Crisis

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The writer states that the article essentially reads out like a virtual "Housing Crisis for Dummies" primer, a nicely rendered layman's guide to the very complex and convoluted series of events which have gripped financial markets the world over.... .... ... ... With so many complicated financial instruments involved, it is not a surprise that even experts are at a loss to explain its intricacies....

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The Rock Musical Hair

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This is a short essay that describes and reviews one of the first rock musicals - "Hair", that have been directed and written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni in sixties.... .... ... ... The musical explored free love, sexuality, racism, homosexuality, drug use, protest against the United States involvement in the War in Vietnam, the "Age of Aquarius" and the themes of loneliness and isolation....

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Internal combustion engine

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Two stroke cycle engine requires two strokes of the piston on take one revolution of the crank shaft to complete the cycle.... Section and exhaust strokes are successfully eliminated in two stroke cycle engine .... Compared to four stroke cycle engine, two stroke cycle engine has some advantages and disadvantages. ...

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A Replenishment Philosophy of Inventory Management

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In the paper 'A Replenishment Philosophy of Inventory Management' the author discusses the difference between a requirements philosophy and a replenishment philosophy of inventory management.... Demands could be classified under two types: the Dependent Demand and the Independent Demand.... ... ... ...

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Why Do Earthquakes Occur Near Tectonic Plate Boundaries

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In the essay 'Why Do Earthquakes Occur Near Tectonic Plate Boundaries' the author illustrates earthquake activity in a deep oceanic trench.... As the two oceanic plates collide, the heavier plate moves beneath the lighter one.... The friction causes the earth to release hot plumes of magma.... ... ...

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Healthcare Systems Management

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Healthcare systems today face many problems.... Though most European countries have different political methods and institutional structures they've similar problems in adapting to increasing costs; skills shortage, evolving technology, rising expectations and health consumerism, demographic and societal change and funding issues9. ...

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Marketing Debate: Does marketing create or satisfy needs

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One of the most popular definitions of marketing is the identification and satisfaction of human needs.... According to the American Marketing Association, "Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stake holders (Kotler 2006)....

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Process Centered Management Model in the Health Care Industry Setup

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The early 1980's became a period of reflection in American business frontier.... Beleaguered by the onslaught of Japanese and other foreign multinationals, Uncle Sam's managers was clueless on how they would improve their productivity and minimize cost to compete with foreigners.... ... ... ... It was until the introduction of revolutionary management theories, such as the process centered management, in the latter part of 1980's that aided American businessmen to realize the resuscitation of United States' industrial prowess. ...

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Internal Revenue Service

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This essay demonstrates taxable investment income.... These include expenses for investment counseling and advice, legal and accounting fees, and investment newsletters.... Also discusses Investment income such as includes interest, dividends, capital gains, and other types of distributions.... ... ...

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Neurotransmitters, Biology and Behavior

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Neurotransmitters are chemical substances that facilitate communication between neurons by conveying impulses, across the synapse which is the junction between nerve ends.... Gulli and Finley (2003) define neurotransmitters as "chemicals located and released in the brain to allow an impulse from one nerve cell to pass to another nerve cell"....

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Weekly Journal

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Cultural literacy can take the option of the critical literacy approaches.... Because critical literacy tend to involves the analysis and critique of the relationships among texts, language, power, social groups and social practices.... ... ... ... Cultural literacy can take the option of the critical literacy approaches....

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Globalization in India

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Globalization has created lot of wealth for few pockets and misery for many to whom earning their daily bread matters.... Land, due its availability at the nearest proximity of the developed or under developed areas has created a huge demand for purchase and sale particularly in developing countries like India....

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The Master on His Master Plan

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In the essay 'The Master on His Master Plan' the author analyzes the task of humanity: servitude to the Lord.... Our general job description, as spoken by God himself in Philippians 2:13, is to obey him and to do what he pleases.... He adds that we are required to do so for He is preparing us for eternity....

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Commission of the European Communities v. Italian Republic

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The Italian Republic had failed to fulfill its obligations under Article 30 of the EC Treaty that prohibits chocolate products containing vegetable fats other than cocoa butter from being marketed in Italy under the name used in the Member State of origin when such products are to be marketed under the name chocolate substitute. ...

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Team Behavior and Communication

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All of us communicate.... It forms the basis of our lives.... Communication is an exchange of ideas, thoughts and feelings between two or more persons.... We communicate our thoughts and feelings to our family members, friends and colleagues every hour of our life.... ... ... ... To be human is to communicate....

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Marxism and Culture

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Culture, political ideology, economics, and social structures co-mingle and become the representation of who we are and form our social identity.... While these facets can be examined as stand alone components to some degree, they are all interdependent and part of a larger social context.... ... ...

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Sociology and Class

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After a perusal of the readings provided I would premise my support for the Marxist conflict theory to explain racial prejudice or racism.... Racism is the view that we as humans belong to different racial groups, which are hierarchically divided into inferior and superior circles and the basis of suppression of the inferior groups by the superior groups....

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Linguistic and Literary Issues in A Tale of Two Cities

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This paper shall discuss the thesis that in a profound understanding of the structure and meaning of the novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens, it is fundamental to comprehend the relationship between the several subplots and the overall structure of the novel.... ... ... ... This essay discusses that one of the major characteristics of the structure of 'A Tale of Two Cities' is the novelist's skillful use of coincidence and densely interconnected subplots....

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Decriptive Writting

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BZZZZZZZ!... The oven alarm pulls me out of my reverie.... Reluctantly, I leave my sanctuary and walk to open my oven.... I hear my daughter clamber down the stairs, and as she descends she demands "Are they ready" Of course they are ready.... I pull out her cinnamon buns but I am distracted by the invitation that beckons directly across ...

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Worst Day in School

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Why am I being expelled Madam I did not do any thing, please do not expel me".... And instantly I could feel the liquidity on my face.... At this moment I realized that I was dreaming and woke up rubbing my eyes.... This indeed was a horrible dream.... My day started off with this dream and at that very moment I realized that this dream was going to have its effects on my entire day and my day would not go really well....

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SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY OF JOHN LOCKE

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During the Enlightenment, several pre-Classical thinkers wrote articles and books that provided society with a new way of viewing criminal activity and laws.... Their ideas had a profound effect not only during the enlightenment but on criminology and criminal justice system today.... ... ... ... Pre-Classical thinkers viewed society through a pessimistic lens....

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Western civilization to 1550 What is the West

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Western Civilization has finally begun around 1300 after emerging within several thousand years and taking its form for several hundred years.... ut many children have had little information or lost of interest of the Western civilization particularly the development of the West itself.... ... ... ...

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Business Law (Case study)

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In the normal course, under Article 30, Section 624 of the McKinney's Consolidated Law of New York- annotated, every contract for health services needs to be "cancelled within three business days after the date of receipt by the buyer of a copy of the written contract.... (New York Consolidated Laws). ...

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Political Parties in the USA

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In the essay 'Political Parties in the USA' the author focuses on the Democratic Party and Republican Party, the two major parties in the United States.... Americans will vote out on Tuesday in 51 separate elections, in each state and the District of Columbia.... ... ... ... The author states that whichever candidate gets 270 electoral votes will win the white house....

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Analyzing the Ways the Media Represent the American Economy

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The economic hegemony of the United States has been recognized worldwide.... The US economy has always been regarded for its size and stability making the US dollar the global vehicle currency.... However, recent news and outlooks in the media shows that the economy is entering a transition period from being an economic giant to a possible slowdown. ...

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US legal system and business law

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Ethics are sometimes hard for individual people to grasp, but when we look at controlling the ethics of whole companies, the lines between money making and duty to ethics and principle sometimes become a little more grey.... ... ... ... It seems sometimes the companies do not realize the lines they are crossing, or simply don't care....

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Company report

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According to Fortune Magazine, Marriott International is the 89th best company to work for.... One reason is that the company continues to expand both within the United States and overseas.... Also, Marriott's estimated $11.... 5 billion in revenues for 2005 is proof that it will be around in the next century....

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Children after Parents Divorce

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Children who are faced with the separation of their parents through divorce face a special set of difficulties.... They will experience the loss of a parent, geographical relocation, and possible socio-economic changes.... Pre-teen children who deal with these issues may exhibit negative behavioral reactions to these events and may react differently than those children in the age group 13-18....

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Policies of past administrations

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The United States became physically involved in Vietnam in the late forties in the capacity of military advisers.... The US was initially allied with the French, and when the French departed in 1954, the United States became the primary military foreign government presence in the country.... ... ...

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Kants Ethical Theory

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Adherence to categorical imperatives provides for autonomous ethical choice in the sense that human dignity is combined with universality, so that the product of each one's autonomous will shall at the same time be for oneself and for all.... .... ... ... Immanuel Kant has earned the distinction in history of being the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment....

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Hospital Atmosphere and a Noble Profession

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The paper describes community services, mainly focusing on helping people with disabilities.... There was not a single opportunity when I had any doubt about my future career.... Since childhood, my goal remained the same, and I had never thought of any other career for me.... ... ... ... The patients are in need of all empathy, positive participation and encouragement during their hospitalization....

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I Am a Nurse by S.Idczak

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In the article 'I Am a Nurse by S.... dczak' there is a thorough discussion of the results of a study performed by her in which she surveyed nursing students to find out how they were learning the art of nursing.... She began her study with a literature review.... ... ... ... The author of the paper states that the meaning of experience came through in five themes that were threaded throughout the responses from the students....

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Essay of leotard in spanish

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La condicion postmodernistica de la cual habla Jean Francois Lyotard tiene que hacer con tres diferentes aspetos polifaceticos: el discurso cientifico; el discurso de las matematicas; y finalmente el discurso de los artes liberales. ... ... s la habilidad de vivir bien encima del misterio en el mundo alrededor de nosotros....

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The Acute Care for Elders

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The essay "The Acute Care for Elders" states that people with terminal illnesses face a mix of physical and financial stress.... The care for a terminally ill person whether at home, in hospices, and in-hospital may cost a lot to the family and even to the government.... ... ... ... Medical practitioners especially doctors are keen on extending interventions to patients even though the cure remains asymptotic....

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Personal Counseling Approach

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The writer of an essay "Personal Counseling Approach" points out that any task involving the human constituent-from plotting a war to planning for a career-involves a certain degree of ambiguity, because human behaviour is often unpredictable.... ... ... ... This single quandary is of paramount concern to many career counsellors....

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On Logic and Argument: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

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In the paper 'On Logic and Argument: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle' the author discusses Plato's arguments, which were based on a supposition; with an abstract form of deductive reasoning, one formulated a premise then sought confirmation of that premise in the material world.... ... ... ... The author states that Aristotle rejected Plato's notion and brought about the foundation of modern logic, which is a syllogism....

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Managerail Economics

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1.... The ideas of consumer surplus and producers surplus can be used to measure the efficiency of competitive markets.... Together, they comprise of the total surplus (Mankiw).... In the graph below, we will show that the competitive market yields the highest total surplus, compared to below- or above-equilibrium levels of output. ...

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