No longer would authority -- civic, religious or familial -- enjoy unquestioned its place in the great chain of being.
Kimpton started out doing wholesome budget hotels in San Francisco, but has since worked its way luxury-ward in the hotel chain-of-being.
They also made several changes in the wake of NL MVP Ryan Braun having his 50-game suspension overturned based on the chain-of-custody being broken with this collected urine sample.
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In a statement, Hamon said a provider in Luxembourg and traders in Cyprus and the Netherlands are also part of the chain being probed.
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Last month, after a Ceres-led dialogue with labor and human rights groups, NGOs, suppliers and other companies, Levi Strauss released a new blueprint for supply chain engagement that promises deeper efforts to improve the lives and well-being of its supply chain workers, and challenges and inspires other companies to do the same.
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He said while it was not a food safety issue, it was "another example of the integrity of the food chain being shown to be substandard".
Abu Ghaith's decision to leave Iran to travel to Turkey led to the chain of events that resulted in him being taken in to custody by U.S. officials in the Middle East and then transferred to New York for trial there rather than incarceration at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Such are the problems of being the fastest-growing restaurant chain in the U.S., which has doubled its number of stores since 2009.
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It is to say that this has opened up an enormous chain of additional problems which are far from being resolved.
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Toys "R" Us, the inventor of chain-store toy discounting, is being run ragged by Wal-Mart.
Inflation, they said, was caused by high commodity prices pushing up energy and food costs, while supply-chain disruptions in Japan were in the process of being solved.
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Whether it is for potential business alliances, sales, marketing, supply chain management or just to escape the loneliness of being a solopreneur, making connections is vital for business growth.
Nothing makes pulling the whole chain of dependencies in a startup more difficult than being confronted with an overcrowded market of competition when you get out there and try to sell your product.
After years of being trained to focus on the supply chain, and that innovation is mostly about how to cut costs in the existing business, very few are thinking about market needs.
For example, Jim Rodgers, co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, told the BBC that a lack of farmers played a starring role in a recent spike in food prices - grain, corn and soybean being critical parts of the food supply chain.
While many big companies, such as banks and chain stores, have gone bilingual, small businesses view the prospect of being forced down that road with horror.
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In the U.K. market, Wal-Mart's Asda supermarket chain has been facing increasing competition, as well as the prospect of being prosecuted for its refusal to recognize unions.
Kate Moss, a supermodel, designed a line of clothes for Topshop, a British fashion chain, that is also being sold in Barneys, a New York department store.
We also believe that some of the revenue upside that we saw in the March 2011 quarter was the result of customers being cautious and accelerating purchasing activities to minimize supply chain disruptions.
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The coffee supply chain example above illustrates the multiple touch points within the supply chain, and each touch point contains important information about the integrity of the cargo being shipped.
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The team structure is being expanded to all of GE Aviation's 83 supply-chain sites, which employ 26, 000.
Despite being a chain, the Eric Kayser bakeries are praised for their range of superlative baguettes, with additions such as poppy seeds or sesame.
Levering the balance sheet pulled in the roof of the whole western economy and now going too far up the value chain and being the brand just might pull in the walls.
That's the question being addressed by Robert Bigelow , owner of the Budget Suites of America hotel chain.
Efforts are being made to trace six of the carcasses that may have entered the food chain after they were exported to France.
First of all, it ignores the fact that the value chain is connected to the environment, that resources are being extracted at the upstream end and that consumers are dumping their used products back into the environment at the downstream end.
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The administrators of electrical chain Comet will close its Hull Business Centre on Thursday, with the company's final 20 employees being made redundant.
Director Ismail Serageldin reports that this important site is secure, and is being protected by Egyptian citizens who have formed a human chain around the complex to fend off any threat of damage or looting.
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