As they gain scale, big chains are also opening modern distribution centres.

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Mapping the modern distribution of these superclusters is one of the tasks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (another foundation-funded instrument, based in New Mexico), which is scanning a quarter of the sky in unprecedented detail.

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Our sales performance with The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings definitely convinced us that yes, our alternative approach to digital distribution does work for modern games too!

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Mr Franzia's firm, the Bronco Wine Company, brings California's excess grapes to its plant in Napa Valley from all over the state. (The firm's use of the Napa name on its labels is, as a result, currently the subject of a lawsuit.) Bronco owns an efficient modern plant and has its own distribution network, so it can deliver wine directly to Trader Joe's warehouses, which keeps costs down.

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This waste though is minimal, trivial in fact, compared to the waste of a food distribution system that does not use the modern techniques.

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Edwards and John Magee, the fathers of modern technical analysis and authors of Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, descending triangles are bearish formations that result from distribution.

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