For instance, the top fast-food chain by number of locations, Subway, added close to 6, 000 restaurants from 2008-2010, the Milford, CT-based company reports.
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This type of impact by top-of-the-food-chain predators on lower trophic levels is well known in marine systems, said Peterson, and has been shown to occur in terrestrial systems in the study of invertebrates.
Breedon however has noticed that when payment terms are accelerated at the top of the chain - when for example the government pays promptly - there is a benefit to the supplier dealing directly with the end buyer, but not necessarily to those smaller companies sitting below the main supplier.
They are small cubicles -- each individual will have one -- that has a wooden top and then nothing more than chain-link fence, exposing the person to the elements but of course also making him always available to be seen.
Beluga prices would surely skyrocket, fixing the caviar even more securely at the top of the food-pricing chain.
We figured this natural-foods chain would make the list, but who knew it would hands-down top it?
What followed was the biggest fire sale in the history of the sector, as two dozen medium-sized companies at the top of the food chain necked down to six.
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Pfizer has fought a lot of battles--and taken many risks--along the way to the top of the pharmaceutical food chain.
Obama could have proposed a tax credit that would boost the insurance subsidy for low-wage workers while cutting it for those at the top of the food chain.
Not only is Cablevision conspicuously not a member of the CableLabs consortium, it also owns the Wiz electronics chain, which would presumably benefit from sales of set-top boxes.
The question that has been facing Joel Klein, America's top trust-busting lawyer at the Justice Department, is whether to rattle this chain, or even to slice through it.
Yet it is the 1990s that have seen executive pay soar to unprecedented levels, as shown in a study by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy (see top chart), with knock-on benefits further down the senior professional food chain.
Indeed independence can be seen as the logical step in a chain of recent reforms that mark Labour's retreat from the top-down target regime.
Those at the top of the food chain get a new identity in which to take pride, that of the sushi-eating, Brazilian-girlfriend-having cosmopolitan.
The Florida Keys, a 113-mile-long chain of islands, is one of the five suggestions in Lonely Planet's top five day trips from Miami, but the laid-back streets feel more like they belong in the Caribbean.
Bailian Group of Shanghai, whose domestically well-known businesses include the Shanghai Friendship Group and Lianhua Supermarket, led a list of top chain stores in China published by the China Chain Store and Franchise Association earlier this month.
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Several closely-packed cars were jostling for position at top speed when they got tangled up, setting off a dangerous chain reaction that ensnared a number of vehicles.
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