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The Amway Corporation's official homepage at (www.amway.com) and accompanying web-sites:

(www.amway.com/usa/people/amdist/contents.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/people/amdist/peopdcn.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/opportun/); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/quikpow.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/quikdata.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/quikfold.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/quikprnt.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/quikrnd.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/quikrecy.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/quikordr.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/procdc.htm); (www.amway.com/amwayusa/products/life/sudsduds/detergent.htm); (www.amway.com/usa/progress/tech/geewhiz/machine.htm)
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The World of Amway. Refer to "Values" and "Founding Fundamentals" wep-pages (accessed through www.amway.com).

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For a critique of Multi-Level marketing-- (www.best.com/~vandruff/mlm1.html)

What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing?

For information concerning the train companies that service Amway's main plant in Ada, MI, refer to the following web-sites:

(www.rrhistorical.com/gtwhs/mission.html), (www.rrhistorical.com/gtwhs/Data/gt_frt.html) & (http://129.93.266.138/rr/CNR/Cnlines.htm)

For information in respect to patents held by the Amway Corporation refer to the following web-sites:

(http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/ibm.html) &

(http://patents.uspto.gov.cgi_bin/search4?INDEX+0)

Note: Refer to patent numbers #5635467, 5514295, 5458799, 5456854, 5429765,

RE33646, 4686254, 4659496.

For information regarding the Council for National Policy (CNP) refer to the following two web-sites:

(http://www.ifas.org/fw/9601/members.html)

(http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/cnp/executive.html)

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1985 Organizational Deviance in the Direct Selling Industry: A Case Study of the Amway Corporation. Doctor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University.

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1982 Fake it til you made it! Carlton, OR: Victory Press.

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1974 A Phenomenological Analysis of the Belief System of the Amway Corporation. Master of Arts, University of North Carolina.

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1983 The Portable Karl Marx. E. Kamenka, ed. New York: Penguin Books.

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1995 Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest. New York: Routledge.

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1981 Analysis of Amway's Motivational Techniques. Master of Business Administration, California State University.

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1983 The Gospel Time Bomb: Ultrafundamentalism and the Future of America. New York: Prometheus Books.

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Vlasic, Bill and Mary Beth Regan

1998 "Amway II: The Kids Take Over, Dick DeVos and Steve Van Andel try to shed old baggage. In Business Week. Pp. 60-70.

Web-sites providing critiques and resource information on the Amway Corporation:

(www.teleport.com/~schwartz/), (Schwartz@teleport.com)--Comments on Amway&emdash;

"Time will tell" and " RELATIVE LOST."

(www.teleport.com/~schwartz/articles.htm) & (www.teleport.com/~schwartz/cr.htm)

(http://student.uq.edu.au/~ja333710/amway/refs.htm)

(http://www.vtoy.fi/~teeman/suits.htm)

(http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/business/98/01/07/amway.2-0.html)

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