No longer would authority -- civic, religious or familial -- enjoy unquestioned its place in the great chain of being.
Dell, with a history of managing a great supply chain and relatively little innovation in management or analysis software, has the longest road to travel to this new model.
Someone who can take a once great retail chain with tremendous geographical reach, strong legacy and roots in selling high margin hard to understand products and turn it into a profit center.
To many musicologists, Raitt is a crucial link in the chain of great blues artists and she's even in the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.
"The supply chain is not in great shape, and people aren't sure projected demand reflects real demand, " Sue said.
That has caused great stresses throughout the whole food chain of technology.
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Pharmacies can be found on most high streets, and the chain ParaShop has a great, and wide, selection of skincare brands and has branches throughout Paris.
Never pressing too hard but remaining persistent, he would talk about what a great addition Younkers' 50-store chain would be for Proffitt's.
Taj Lands End, a branch of the famous Taj hotel chain -- its lobby is great for people watching.
His legs weren't feeling great, and then his bike busted its chain.
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In the past two years, Apple has taken great strides to source minerals responsibly and control their supply chain.
The region requires a great deal of education and enlightenment in the field of supply chain.
The great of outsourcing productive process may be ending so the supply chain may in 2013 carry a greater domestic component than in 2008.
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For 18 years Milissa Boisseau had a great gig, helping fill the shelves at the 7-Eleven store chain.
Microsoft may not have a great many friends these days, but it does drag a long value chain behind it.
Other than inventing the scale-based supply-chain-squeeze model of retail, which must go down as one of the great business innovations of all time, Wal-Mart is hardly known as a foresight-based player.
He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.
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These three sentences do nothing less than blow apart the central tenet of modern conservative economic theory, confirming that lowering tax rates on the wealthy does nothing to grow the economy while doing a great deal to concentrate more wealth in the pockets of those at the very top of the income chain.
The operator of Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains has made its Pizza Hut chain into a nice restaurant in the country, deemed by some contemporary Chinese to be a great place for a first date, while introducing products such as fried dough sticks, egg tarts and shrimp burgers to suit local tastes.
As owner of the entire value chain, AXP has created a profitable niche for itself in the financial service markets, offering a great potential for profits.
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"He took a great interest in us, " says Reinstein, who intends to expand his fast-casual restaurant into a chain of 500 or more in a decade.
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