He started out at minimum wage on the ground floor of a retail chain store, she worked as a secretary.

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He also promoted the once-heretical idea of using mobile ground forces and a streamlined chain of command to "get inside the enemy's decision cycle" and hasten its collapse.

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Then, they reach a parking area and take a quarter-mile-long path toward the mountains that leads to a couple of acres of ground enclosed by an eight-foot chain-link fence.

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Looking at stock prices over the past decade as Wal-Mart pushed deeply into groceries and Kroger, the biggest traditional supermarket chain, learned to stand its ground it looks like a standoff.

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Travaasa Hana, the second in the ground-breaking new Travaasa Spa Resort mini-chain, is about as retreat-like as you can have and still have all the cushy comforts of a five-star resort.

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Supermarket chain Sainsbury's wants to build a store on the ground and the club would move to a new stadium in Stoke Gifford, South Gloucestershire.

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For the first time, on-the-ground soldiers will be able to fire at a hidden opponent without having to go up the chain of command to ask for a precision air strike and waste precious time doing so.

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