Besides, a company might want to keep control of its supply chain to protect its brand and knowledge.
So why would Apple, known for meticulous control of its supply chain, stay quiet when someone has invaded its distribution network in China?
Among other cities that have recently experimented with new parking technologies, some, including San Francisco, have introduced dynamic pricing systems that raise and lower the cost of a space in order to control the supply of available on-street spaces.
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According to one of TechCrunch's sources, Apple will control the supply of pins for its connector and will only sell them to partners when accessories meet Cupertino's standards.
De La Rue will provide forecasts of the demand for cash but it is up to customers to control the supply of their currency.
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Despite his own wounds, Romesha led a charge across the outpost that regained control of the ammunition supply depot.
The experiment in "monetarism" - using the control of the money supply to control inflation - was quite quickly abandoned.
You wander around the agora and find that others are selling bowls quite similar to yours, meaning that you are in control of neither the supply nor the price.
Essentially, the government would sell legal admission to work in the U.S., and control the supply of legal immigrants by either setting the price or the supply of visas itself.
When the same economist, or even one not so eminent, tells you that trade is wealth creating, or that rent control reduces the supply of affordable housing, that wages rise as productivity does, believe them for this is the part of the subject that is well understood, where the basic ground rules really are known.
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In exchange, the Guggenheim would retain control, supply the works of art from its collection and provide administrative and curatorial expertise.
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Financial intervention broadly: government control of interest rates and money supply, and long-term currency debasement are somehow non-issues even as federal regulation such as Dodd-Frank sweeps across the private financial sector.
All of the gun control proposals being advanced by progressives are aimed at reducing the supply of guns, certain types of magazines, ammunition, etc.
Leverage in futures markets allowed them to control a huge chunk of the available world supply.
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Extremists could control a key part of the global energy supply.
Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.
But, he says, powerful corporate food distributors control too much of the world's food supply to ensure a robust global food supply.
Cameco, France's Areva and Britain's Rio Tinto among them control 60% of the world's uranium supply, so he pondered if they understood that the rising prices weren't a blip.
Under a private system, the link between price deviation and correction is immediate and strong because supply is under the direct control of the currency issuers, who have the means through loan and trading operations to tightly clamp down on (or expand) the supply.
He and his lieutenants pressed caution on their suppliers, spot-checked shipments and built a web of foreign subsidiaries to gain more control over the supply chain, according to former employees and business associates.
But the third argument put forward by those who say we can't control immigration is that immigration is not just a problem of supply but of demand.
As Mr Yan points out, farming Artemisia not only gives firms more control over their supply, but also helps reduce the loss of biodiversity that comes from picking wild plants.
The longer a game goes on, the less cards are going to be around to handle threats that will presumably be cast from a greater supply of mana and resources, so a control deck like Dimir grind is probably going to get the most value out of something like this.
The Defense Supply Center at Columbus, one of three inventory control points operated by the Defense Logistics Agency, employs 7, 000 civilians and contract personnel.
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Controlling the supply of rare earths means that China can also control their processing and use in finished goods, which would fit a broader effort to drive its manufacturers from low- to high-value goods.
Well-trained fighters from the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah, have joined battle with government forces fighting to regain control of the strategic western town of Qusair, which lies on vital supply routes for both the rebels and the government.
Autonomous control over supply, via aggregation in unions, became their only source of power.
In just a few months, the laws of supply and demand create new products, provide external loss control support for insureds, and may financially incentivize some companies to do the right thing.
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Located in northwest Syria, Aleppo has been torn by months of fighting between government forces and rebel groups, who control much of the city, where electricity and food have been in short supply.
Therefore suppliers, processors, distributors and retailers need to step up their control and visibility across the supply chains, tracking products from raw material to the point of consumption.
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