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Exercise 2: Plan the following searches. Write down search terms and synonyms. Use appropriate truncation, proximity connectors, and logical operators.

Once you have completed your planning, click the Check Yourself button to see sample answers.

Remember that search strategies can be written in more than one way!

1. Locate articles that discuss profit sharing or employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) as incentive schemes for improving worker productivity.
2. Find information about regulation of the cable television industry.
3. Find an article that provides a survey of executive compensation.
4. Find sales figures for the Ford Mustang.
5. Find information on the productivity of workers who are telecommuting.

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