Squeezing every drop of profit throughout the supply chain is one of the reasons, and the supply chain ends with the users.

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Therefore, distribution must be delivered through a multi-layer supply chain that ends in thousands of mom-and-pop storefronts.

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Coventry battled hard in the closing stages but chances were in short supply at both ends and the home side could do nothing to avoid slumping to a third successive defeat.

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Which is where Steam comes in: a gaming marketplace the size of the Steam store, and a player as influential, changes the potential desirability of Linux at both ends of the supply-demand equation.

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The devastating Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake of July 16, 2007 caused all units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station to be shut down, and left us with a mountain of challenges in maintaining stable supply of electricity, making ends meets, and addressing environmental impacts.

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How this will play out on the front end is unknown, but rather than supplying a kludgy front end to a broken back end, Google must see light at the end of the tunnel and believe it can supply both front and back ends and dispense with that piece of the Microsoft relationship entirely.

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Supermarkets and their supply chains have a major influence on what ends up in the household dustbin, she said.

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"The financial crisis ends up putting a tighter grip on the supply of money, " says Brian Matas, vice president of market research at IC Insights.

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The question Mundell avoids answering is how the central monetary authority, in whatever guise it ends up, will determine the demand for money so as to adjust the supply of money appropriately without inflating or deflating the currency?

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