Derailleur gears have a front mech (short for front gear mechanism) to shift the chain between two or three chainrings and a rear mech (short for rear gear mechanism) with up to 10 sprockets.

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The items were intended to go after a broader audience of moms and families, a shift from the chain's previous strategy of courting young men with calorie bombs.

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According to the report, over a third of FDI inflows to developing countries now originate in other developing countries, a trend which is predicted to increase as emerging economies further industrialize and shift production down the value chain.

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The concentration of power among retailers has led to another stage in the shift in power down the food chain.

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The bigger and more fascinating shift in an increasingly globalized, chain-driven society is from All-American to city-specific foods reflecting hometown tastes.

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Oh, I am not going to jump on the Apple-is-losing-its-edge bandwagon or make some obscure connection between its recent stock price fluctuations to some fatal shift in its corporate or supply chain performance (and those rumors around the reductions in orders for iPhone screens, if true, probably stem from a solid reason like a change in product strategy).

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As an interesting new book by Alan W. Brown, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain (Addison Wesley, 2012), points out the consequent shift from software development to software delivery, combining constant innovation and control at the enterprise level.

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This shift away from donuts, however, does not seem to be hurting the chain among those most affected: donut eaters.

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