"Four years ago we found that only 1% of kids' meals at the top chain restaurants were healthy, and now 3% are healthy, " Wootan said.
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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In Kosovo, the tribunal's prosecutors are determined to nail those at the top of the chain of command, then work down to the smaller fry.
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.
It feeds the big department stores at the top of the chain, but it's created by a multitude of tiny boutiques and nurtured in shopping areas like the Harajuku district, where kids parade around in outlandish looks such as gothic lolita, visual kei and decora, as well as outfits for "cosplay, " where they dress as their favorite anime characters.
Le Viet, however, is happy to let that company continue plugging vacancies near the top of the food chain.
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Better to accept that humans were hunters, carnivores at the top of the food chain who enjoy a steak.
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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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.
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.
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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The cycle goes on and the levels of toxicity increases until you get to the top of the food chain with pelagic fish such as swordfish that end up on our dinner plate.
These three sentences do nothing less than blow apart the central tenet of modern conservative economic theory, confirming that lowering tax rates on the wealthy does nothing to grow the economy while doing a great deal to concentrate more wealth in the pockets of those at the very top of the income chain.
Pfizer has fought a lot of battles--and taken many risks--along the way to the top of the pharmaceutical food chain.
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Buying from TGI Friday's wasn't an option, they found, as chain restaurants pay top dollar to buy and keep liquor licenses.
Of course, you don't make it to the top of the GPA food chain without connecting with a keyboard and mouse on the regular.
For example, those at the top of the economic food chain benefit from low tax rates on capital gains and dividends, as well as the exemption for gains on assets transferred at death.
Clients everywhere caught wind of this phenomena and soon, those at the top of the advertising food chain were not only attending, but actively participating in seminars and conducting workshops throughout the week.
At the top of the data food chain is the broadband connected laptop (with a 3G chip in it), of which there are 94 million in use, soaking up the equivalent of 22 smartphones of data.
It's extremely rare in our supply chain, but our top priority is to eliminate it totally.
At the top of the food activist value chain sits the moral power of helping others.
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Beluga prices would surely skyrocket, fixing the caviar even more securely at the top of the food-pricing chain.
"We're trying to capture what happens from the very bottom of the food chain to the very top and look at the dynamics throughout the ecosystem, " said Mackinson.
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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.
Eventually the chain was found at the top of his bowling mark, and Hall, annoyed, distressed and agitated, made Australia regret it.
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.
Recently the company partnered with Top Shop, an edgy London based specialty store chain targeting young consumers.
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