Florida Atlantic is 27th in the RPI, but both Towson and Canisius have rankings in the 90s.
Now, Vera Smolyaninova at Towson University in Maryland, US, and her colleagues have taken those ideas and put them into practice.
For Towson, much of the easy money has been made in BRIC.
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But the best feel-good story in Chapel Hill belongs to Towson.
The Tar Heels (52-8) take on fourth-seeded Canisius (42-15) on Friday evening after second-seeded Florida Atlantic (39-20) faces third-seeded Towson (29-28) in the opener of the double-elimination regional.
Jonathan Lazar, a professor at Towson University, studied 16 employment websites in 2012 and found that applicants who were blind required assistance more than two-thirds of the time.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Central European University in Prague and at Fudan University in Shanghai and is currently professor of economics at Towson University in Maryland.
One strategy Towson describes is what many of us in the West have done de facto to taste the foreign fruit: buy multinationals with exposure to our target markets.
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Thomas Maronick, a former FTC director who now is a marketing professor at Towson University in Maryland, said he worried when the database was being developed that it would expose the FTC to disappointment.
"At that point, he could dictate the rules and the rules were that it was off the record, " says Martha Joynt Kumar, professor of political science at Towson University and author of Managing the President's Message: The White House Communication Operation.
In another recent paper Marina Azzimonti of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Eva de Francisco of Towson University and Vincenzo Quadrini of the University of Southern California argue that income inequality may have had a troubling effect in this area of finance, too.
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