It was a contagious chain of misbehavior, and what really was significant was not how a teacher stopped the deviancy at the end of the chain but whether she was able to stop the chain before it started.
Tibco is focusing on serving this end-to-end value chain for analytics with its portfolio of products.
Wendy's is also revamping its menu to improve ingredients and recast itself as a higher-end burger chain.
Its Anthropologie chain offers higher-end apparel for women ages 30 to 45, and its Free People wholesaler peddles togs to boutiques.
Consider John Mackey, the boss of Whole Foods, a chain of high-end supermarkets.
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Additionally, Cigen has inked a deal with Alila, a boutique hotel operator in Singapore, to set up a chain of high-end wellness resorts in exotic Asian locations.
To that end the chain is constantly adding reasons for customers to linger longer at the stores or to drop by in the evening or afternoon (traffic peaks between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.).
When he reached the end of the chain, it jerked and he dropped as if shot.
For example, Pizza Hut positioned itself as a high-end trendy restaurant chain and is doing extremely well in China.
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In India, where the middle class also is growing, Mr. Capuano said Marriott plans to introduce its lower-end Fairfield hotel chain.
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Belu water can be found on the shelves at Waitrose, a high-end British supermarket chain, as well as in some of London's most exclusive eating establishments, including Nobu, Sketch and the Groucho Club.
Fitzgerald charged that Libby told FBI agents and the grand jury that "he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another" about Plame.
The company got obsessed with the product supply chain and distanced itself from its end customers.
Same-store sales at the front-end of the drugstore chain rose 2.7%, while same-store pharmacy sales rose 1.2%.
The consequences stretch from one end of the food chain to the other, as higher food prices prompt a response.
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But is it the case that this division of labor necessarily directs the biggest rewards to the most gifted by putting them at the highest end of the value chain?
According to Mr Fitzgerald's summation, Mr Libby claimed, to the FBI and under oath to the grand jury, to be at the end of a gossip chain, passing what he heard from reporters on to other reporters without substantiation.
The funding, which will finance up to 75 percent of new-unit costs, will help take the chain to 50 units by year-end.
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But they have the traditional skills needed for the unique finishes and state-of-the art features that come at the end of the fabric production chain.
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By lowering the bar for who can own a franchise unit, a chain might recruit undercapitalized, struggling franchisees who end up having to close their units.
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But, as anyone on the "field-end" rather than the "fork-end" of the food supply chain will tell you, these days margins are tight and competition fierce.
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