While some hospital executives have commendably used a hospital chain's large size to standardize best practices, others have fallen into the age-old management trap of detaching themselves from the front lines and becoming dangerously out of touch with their own staff.
Robert Bigelow, a budget hotel-chain mogul, built a life-size space station in his well-guarded Bigelow Aerospace factory in Nevada.
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We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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Others include banning trans fats from restaurant meals, forcing chain eateries to post calorie counts on menus and limiting the size of some sugary drinks.
These include the single fastest-growing retail chain in any sector, Sprouts Farmers Market, which doubled in size in the past year.
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Buyers of Misfit's Shine wearable activity monitor, which borrows Apple's minimalist approach to design, have wanted to put this small disc, the size of a quarter, on their wrist, on a chain, around their ankles or even use it as a hairpin.
Wishbook, the size of a Flintstone steak, touched off a months-long chain of daydreams and fantasies about lives lived in different futures: A Ted Williams first baseman's mitt could send your fate branching off in one direction, or so it seemed, a Coleman camp stove or Roman legionnaire's sword along other avenues entirely.
The new size comes on the 25th birthday of the frozen treat and the 70th anniversary of the chain.
Peterson, founder of the Jack in the Box restaurant chain, from 1977 until his death in 1994, but court documents don't disclose the size of the couple's fortune that apparently funded O'Connor's gambling habit.
China's huge size means that to maintain stellar growth rates, the economy needs to move up the value-added chain fast and grab more export market share.
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