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• Author: Steven M. Goldman, H. Bret Lowell.

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The franchising law compliance manual : keys to a successful corporate compliance

program / Steven M. Goldman, H. Bret Lowell.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 1-57073-773-8

1. Franchise (Retail trade)—Law and legislation—United States. I. Lowell, H. Bret. II.

Title.

KF2023.G65 1999

343.73’0887—dc21 99-59716

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