It wasn't the only meal among my recent favorites that was vegetarian from soup to nuts.

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Apple neatly straddles both worlds, being, for the most part, indifferent to where work is done, since it owns its whole ecosystem from soup to nuts.

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It was "soup to nuts", as one official put it.

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The hope, says Andrew Springate, senior vice president of marketing at Dr Pepper Snapple, is that the students will oversee the brand, "soup to nuts, " for the foreseeable future.

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Their core competencies are Alumni Travel Programs, Donor Appreciation Travel (for non-profits), soup to nuts management of large scale Charity Fundraisers (runs, hikes, bikes) and of course, corporate outing and team building events.

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"It would certainly be classic Apple in terms of 'We're going to take care of the entire experience from soup to nuts, '" says Crawford Del Prete, senior vice president at tech-market researcher IDC.

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Giuliano will rely on strong relationships with global distributors to sell soup-to-nuts systems--like the one in Sag Harbor, completed in March.

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He sold off a financial services arm and began acquiring small school-software companies, piecing together what is now a soup-to-nuts school-automation-software package.

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With Sterling and WebSphere together, IBM can offer a soup-to-nuts e-commerce platform.

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