It's also easier to maintain quality control -- Regal oversees its equipment from a central location -- and security.

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Now the Department of Homeland Security wants to create its own internal fusion center so that its many agencies can aggregate the data they have and make it searchable from a central location.

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Named after a cacao-rich region of central Venezuela, Chuao Chocolatier morphed from a single location retail outlet in 2002 into a specialty food up-and-comer in 2005, shipping 2, 000 bars per flavor every month.

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It eliminates the need to navigate through myriad sources and options, and provides a simple way to manage content from one central location.

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Ubisoft is positioning the software as a convenience, allowing gamers to launch their titles from one central location.

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Schaefer lobbied the Ethiopian government to donate land in a central location so the school could serve children from several nearby villages.

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An illustration of a telephone talking to a fax machine left him none the wiser, nor the idea that "storing results of a two-way interaction to a central location" was something that his applications had copied from the American firm.

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