He wanted to create a franchise, a mechanism of delivery of eye care with the efficiency of McDonald's.

There were no restaurant chains.

Block all the streets leading out!

Networks of private businesses clusters and linkages

I am the owner of one of the greatest drugstore chains.

As in the case of clusters, the formation and benefits of supply chain linkages depend upon the overall business environment, including appropriate regulatory settings, infrastructure and information about linkage opportunities.

The machine itself has 89 distinct interactions.

Put them out on the whole chain. I want everyone to smell good.

Those events led to a domino effect that has yet to end.

Yes, but it was taken over last year by the Midway chain.

Food for Revolution

And then there's a 13 page crisis document with 50 interlocking problems.

The fact that it has occurred in Germany and at that very hotel chain, is an even greater disgrace.

In the food retail business, there has been an impressive expansion of supermarket chains.

In the case of Indonesia, the top five chains account for 60 per cent of the market.

And the weakening of any one of them threatens a chain reaction.

Global marketing chains, clusters, networks as channels for diversification

In Chile, for example, the top four chains already represent 46 per cent of total national grocery retailing, and in Latin America as a whole, on average the top five chains represent 65 per cent of total sales.

This is sort of a 7 Eleven for time travelers.

There are Chinese restaurants everywhere, but there is no Chinese restaurant chain.

The chains pointed to other market forces which, they said, caused them to increase these prices.

Prisoners in chain gangs were reportedly required to perform heavy manual labour, such as rock breaking or clearing rubbish from the highway, while shackled together (or with their own legs chained together) with metal chains, exposed to the public.

He's a big chainstore buyer, one of our most important customers.

Low cost family restaurant chain, for those of you who don't know it.

They turned out to be Mrs. Elvira Kent and her uncle, head of a drugstore chain.

The summer heatwave has boosted takings for Britain's struggling pubs but heaped more pressure on restaurant chains.

All of the scale goes to Coca Cola and Burger King.

The presence of large chains helps to overcome bottlenecks in distribution networks existing in developing countries, and through those chains' international procurement practices may bring products from those countries for distribution in international markets.

Moreover, large chains tend to integrate backwards, offering new business opportunities to local manufacturers.

This process has led to a concentration of sales, with large firms and chains dominating the market.

The chain gangs were said to be guarded by armed officers and dogs.

Such threats can set off a global chain reaction that will affect us all.

I've gone over the whole house, even in rooms that have been locked since I lost Laura.

So he went to find them. They said, We can give you a franchise on this for 3,000 bucks.

In the branch in which the sample radiates, it sets off a trigger that releases poison and Schrödinger is dead.

So we may consider that the more those are invading our mind, and, like a chain reaction, the more we feel miserable, we feel tormented.

Small shops play an important role as employers of those who migrate from rural to urban areas, including foreigners, performing a crucial social role that large chains would be unable to perform, since chains require that employees have a certain level of skill.

The development of supermarket chains in Asia and Africa has followed a similar pattern to that of Latin America, but with a later take off.

Four convenience store chains raised their prices for carbonated beverages by an identical amount within a brief period of time.

Where's the key?

And the memex would link information, one piece of information to a related piece of information and so forth.

There, the family founded Westco Jeans and grew it into a chain of 160 retail outlets.

(c) Nuclear fuel means any material capable of producing energy by means of a self sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction

They go off in the body, forming a chain reaction, and turn the person into a walking atomic bomb.

Private sector networks comprising vertical supply chain linkages and horizontal clustering generate opportunities for smaller enterprises and also facilitate the transfer of skills, technology and information to them.