The game was held up for about fifteen minutes when Hall, bowling flat out, lost his gold chain which carried a crucifix.

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Not an altogether popular decision, but understanding that the ramifications of not doing that would have been probably a million jobs lost, a supply chain that disappeared, and if you look at where the auto industry is today, 55, 000 more people are employed by the auto industry today than when the President took office.

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And this raises questions about whether Apple, under its former supply chain guru, has lost its ability to innovate.

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They tend to get lost amid the modern global supply chain--until an event like the Mar. 11 quake and tsunami disrupts those processes.

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In 2011, it lost its then biggest customer, supermarket chain Asda, when that work was won by Delta Group.

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While Nobu has become a worldwide chain of sorts it has hardly lost a step.

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And with those words BlackBerry just lost a lot of love in the retail chain.

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Earlier in the week camera chain Jessops announced that jobs were to be lost at its head office in Leicester, after administrators were appointed.

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That grew into a chain of department stores, Salinas y Rocha, but lost the Salinas family connection when Ricardo's grandfather, Hugo Salinas, was kicked out in the early 1950s.

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Harvard Square, for instance, where chain stores like The Gap are thriving and rents climbing, may have lost much of its distinctiveness but remains as vibrant as ever.

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