Captain Haines once hung the corpse of a would-be murderer in chains from Aden's Barrier Gate.
Xu Lingling, chief financial officer at Lianhua, says that whereas big foreign players, such as Carrefour, have taken top sites in large cities, Chinese chains may be better suited to mid-sized towns where productivity is lower.
The control over the supply chains will result in China continuing to be a manufacturing base.
There is plenty of steak to be had in Vegas, with celebrity chefs and high-end chains all competing for diner accolades.
He feared that chains used as whips in Kung Fu films could be copied by children.
They talk about "very old gold chains, diamonds and precious stones which cannot be valued in terms of money".
It can be found everywhere in the corporate world, from credit-card companies to hotel chains to the retail trade.
Elaborate supply chains now span many borders: South Korean goods may be assembled in China, using machines from Japan.
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The BJP says former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, now India's president, assured parliament last year that the decision to allow foreign supermarket chains into the country would only be made after consensus was reached in parliament.
Their loyalty programs give the business travelers a shot at free nights in fancier hotel chains that those companies operate, so they'll be hard for Cambria to displace.
In a generation or two, her family's chains of slavery will be completely broken.
Finally, for farmers that are in very loose and dispersed value chains, direct to farmer financing models can be piloted, such as augmenting microfinance with new technology platforms.
The best department store deals will likely be found at regional chains like Bon-Ton and Boscov's (both mainly in the Northeast), according to Anthony Liuzzo, a professor of business and economics at Wilkes University who's been tracking holiday retail trends since 1988.
Generally I find that customer service standards in restaurants and hotels is far better than in shops (although small independant shops tend to be much better than supermarkets and large chains), and that the more mature staff tend to give better service than their younger colleagues.
Numerous companies -- including Dell, IBM, Intel, and HP -- oppose the laws, as they see them giving Microsoft the power to not only drag them into court, but also futz with their supply chains. (There's bound to be some counterfeit software being used in Shenzhen, right?) As Microsoft's latest anti-piracy scheme unfolds, there should be plenty more legislative action to come.
Lucky Earth can now be found in 130 stores, including some in the Whole Foods and Akin's Natural Foods Market chains.
And bringing in the efficient logistics chains of the industrialised world to the poor world is going to be one of the ways that we provide enough edible food for those increased numbers.
It is calling for farm workers to be put on an equal footing with other employees in South Africa, and is urging the big international supermarket chains to put pressure on suppliers to improve working conditions.
Perhaps because he would rather be out on the water than in a superfluous meeting, he has delegated more responsibility, and established clearer chains of command throughout Serono than did his father, who took a more paternalistic approach.
Because the nuclear genes in a cybrid are the same in each cell, any differences between mitochondria cannot be due to the nuclear contribution to their electron-transport chains.
David Rae, head of the convenience stores' lobby group, says that in many areas the only choice will soon be between a different sized outlet of one of the major supermarket chains.
In keeping with the budget theme, Wal-Mart will be the first to carry the players, with electronics chains like Best Buy and Circuit City following.
Commission members are known to be concerned about the lack of personal consequences for the architects of these scandals - no-one has ended up in chains and orange jumpsuits, and that has made it hard to rebuild public confidence.
The beneficiaries will be retailers offering value for money in particular, discounters such as Wal-Mart and Costco, cheap clothing chains such as the foreign-owned Zara, and groups such as Walgreens and Kroger, which sell food, drugs and other basic necessities.
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