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There is some evidence of inventory accumulation of semiconductors and finished electronic products during the first quarter of 2006. We expect the electronic industry supply chain will respond quickly as it did late in 2004 and that inventories will be in balance by the third quarter.

Those pictures were pictures of criminal acts that took place many years ago, rogue soldiers doing activity that wasn't supported by their chain of command.

This team is like a big chain that you can't break.

What is really sad is he had an incredible opportunity to lead this department in a new direction, but he chose to alienate people. Our members are tired, they're demoralized, we have an unclear chain of command, and the management team is in complete disarray. It all happened under Mr. Hickman's watch.

You have to look for something that the chain stores don't carry. Don't think that Wal-Mart will buy your product tomorrow. Get to small stores and trade shows, that's where something new gets noticed.

With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.

This year, Intel is being affected by an ever-aggressive AMD, a roadmap that continues to have glitches and, most importantly, a slowdown in the PC food chain that has started to show signs of exhaustion after 14 months of robust growth.

We just had a little problem with the chain that holds the droop on the right rear. NASCAR didn't like it the way it was. It wasn't a big deal. We were trying to fix it and we just didn't have time.

With less than a year to go until the July 1, 2006 compliance deadline, no topic is hotter in the global electronics industry than lead free technology. To date, IPC and JEDEC have informed thousands of industry members from all segments of the supply chain on the widespread implications of RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) compliance. Attending this conference in Brussels will help keep industry up to speed on the progress of lead free electronic products.

We expect the new management team to rationalize the product portfolio and wring out supply chain improvements over time, but we think 2006 is largely a transition year.

We expect more states to require us to sell emergency contraceptives in the months ahead. Because of this, and the fact that this is an FDA-approved product, we feel it is difficult to justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain not selling it.

We saw one lineman using a chain saw cut through two water moccasins so he could remove a tree that was across lines.

You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest workers program.

This number is very startling. It is the preliminary, so it is subject to fairly substantive revision. These numbers may translate into earnings risk, but may also dissuade an aggressive Federal Reserve. The chain deflator was higher than expected, which may take the steam out of our rally. This may dampen enthusiasm, but not kill it.

When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

There have been prosecutions going down the chain of the command but not going up. Its not enough to prosecute the people who were following orders.

was at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And then he lied about it afterwards.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

Brian Dugan's crimes -- and the murder of Jeanine was not the only one -- are horrific. But I hope that whoever ultimately decides Brian Dugan's fate bears in mind that he also had the moral courage to accept responsibility for a crime he alone committed, even though he knew that the blame had fallen elsewhere. In so doing he set in motion the chain of events that ultimately allowed two innocent men who had been sentenced to death to be restored to freedom. Dugan's evil deeds are extraordinary and repugnant, but his courage also was extraordinary.

Everything was fine before the final sprint. My team mates had done a great job and suddenly my chain slipped, I nearly went over and crashed.

Even if these two men were the ones who planted the bomb, they are at the bottom of the chain of responsibility, ... They were not the ones who decided that Pan Am 103 should be bombed.

Even though it is necessary to reduce our expectations for sales and earnings in the short term, we continue to believe that tremendous long-term opportunity exists at three levels of the value chain ? embedded chips, embedded electronic systems, and end-to-end integrated communications solutions ? for wireless, broadband and Internet markets.

Between the finite and the infiniteThe missing link of Love has left a void.Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will joinIn one continued chain of endless life.

Every kink in the supply chain is royally messed up right now. This is a real big problem.

Every category is susceptible ? from ERP (enterprise resource planning) to supply chain to document management to e-commerce.

Credit card interchange fees are the third-largest expense for many chain drug stores after rent and the cost of labor.

And yet beings, in reality, do not remain in Me. Look at the power of My divine mystery. Though the sustainer and creator of all beings, I do not remain in them. (In reality, the chain does not depend on gold; the chain is nothing but gold. Also, matter and energy are different as well as non-different).

and we're working now to see that they're deployed within an effective and unified chain of command.

Ensuring the security of our global supply chain is critical to homeland security since maritime trade accounts for over 25 percent of the U.S. GDP (gross domestic product) and many experts believe that terrorists are likely to exploit the inherent vulnerabilities of the global supply chain for their nefarious purposes.

Embracing new ways of managing key business processes, such as procurement and accounts payable, allows leading companies like Colgate to uncover significant new sources of value within their operations. We're pleased to help Colgate move its business forward using our organization's expertise in procurement innovation coupled with IBM's well established group of supply chain and accounting professionals.

FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods, the growth in electronic commerce and supply chain re-engineering.

F. Dohmen Wholesale is a good fit with Cardinal Health as we continue to build the industry's best global supply chain for pharmacy customers. The acquisition will complement our existing suite of services and enhance our value proposition to retail pharmacy customers, a very important set of customers for Cardinal Health.

The responsibility for lying to the American people and targeting critics and dissidents needs to go all the way up the chain of command. Scooter Libby was clearly one of the administration's attack dogs unleashed on opponents of this fraudulent war, but he serves higher masters.

There's a daisy chain that stems from the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found.

They are a large company that has a huge supply chain ... if they change their practices they could set a standard for the industry, as well as for their own company, and it can have huge impact.

The Winter Haven Chain of Lakes is obviously going down pretty good, but it is about where it should be for this time of year.

These new distribution agreements and markets prepare us to significantly expand our reach and sales. Our goal, in addition to national chain store accounts, is to secure distribution in most states this year to enable the Company to leverage its strategic promotion plans including anticipated product integration into Mark Burnett's hit reality television shows such as The Apprentice.

The semiconductor group is not terribly expensive, ... This is the bottom of the food chain in technology, and that's where you want to be.

The sell-off in oil damped demand for some metals yesterday in London and New York. Traders in China are worried there might be a chain reaction of funds selling metals to take profits.

The stacks of mail are piling in by the moment. It's great to see that those interested in being able to sell lottery tickets range from national chain retail stores and gas stations to individually owned general stores at every corner of the state.

The supply chain that we have been building and have in place now has a capacity that is well in excess of the sum total of government orders that we've received to date. If governments feel the need, we stand ready to take their orders. There should be no holding back through the belief that we do not have enough supply.

The supply chain is so weak right now that it can't go on this way. That relationship needs to change, but it might be too late.

I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

Sophisticated hackers don't attack in a straight line, ... They weave between sites. If one of these sites strips off the source information and throws it away, there can be a break in the chain for investigators.

Our decision to implement changes in supply chain operations is a difficult one, but it is the right one for the business. The high costs of an inefficient supply chain are simply not acceptable. By moving quickly we will capture substantial savings this year, and be positioned to reap even greater cost savings in fiscal 2000 and beyond,

Our customers want to understand where they have exposure on recalled product, alert their trading partners, and resolve potentially brand-damaging events before they escalate. We are excited to introduce a solution that provides all of the supply chain constituents real-time visibility into the status of a recall and allows them to work together to manage these potentially catastrophic events.

people don't have a right just to chain themselves together.

On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, Microsoft announced to its employees and that it was reorganizing the company into a simpler organization in which executives much further down the chain would have direct decision-making capabilities, allowing the company to move more quickly in this ever-changing market and compete better with companies such as Google and Apple. The reorg was announced publicly a week later, with Microsoft also announcing that group vice president Jim Allchin would retire once Windows Vista ships in late 2006. Succeeding Allchin is Kevin Johnson, who will oversee the new Platform Products & Services division. Jeff Raikes, the head honcho of the unit previous responsible for Microsoft Office, was named president of the Microsoft Business Division. And Xbox's Robbie Bach was named president of Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division, which will combine the Xbox with Microsoft's other hardware products,

Official U.S. government policy in the Clinton administration is to grow food chain crops --the food supply of America -- on poison. And not to tell the public.

The mystery is how to square with this with both the Redbook and Bloomberg chain store sales surveys, which pointed to a huge gain, ... Maybe it will come in March, or today's numbers will be revised up. Either way, this is a brief diversion, not a change of course.

A disintegration of Serbia-Montenegro could cause a chain reaction and destabilize a wider region,

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

The old fence was in such bad shape that it was starting to become a safety issue. There were holes in the old chain link. It was just the next project in a long list of improvements we've been wanting to make to the field.

After all, the chain of custody of these tapes is the one way to find bin Laden. He obviously feels secure enough that he can release a number of these tapes.

Adam's Mark is the first hotel chain of its kind to take such comprehensive affirmative steps to prevent discrimination in its hotels,

Strengthening their product range further down the value chain makes a lot of sense.

So when I did 'The Mark', I had this analyst who needed a shave, his sleeves were rolled up, he was a chain smoker and a coffee drinker.

Now, after all this time, that chain has been soldered together by science. Being part from Sierra Leone, part from Mozambique, that's something I can pass on to my children. And that's what it's all about.

The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction -- it builds on itself.

The Monday mornings now, they add up. I went through it myself. Definitely. That's why I think he needs to get away. I think he needs to go out in the woods with his chain saw and cut trees down and keep doing what he's doing. He needs to answer that question, because if it's not in here (his heart) then it's not going to be right for him and it's not going to be right for everybody.

Demand was good for the Xbox 360 but the company had supply chain constraints.

Dell is a supply chain driven, keep it simple, keep it high volume supplier and anything else doesn't fit their business. Once you get into a more consultative sell it really doesn't fit their business model.

Competition and cost-cutting among retailers have yanked the traditional supply chain completely apart.

Companies in the electronics supply chain ultimately need real-time content that is integrated with a robust Product Data Management (PDM) system.

Companies are realizing that their supply chain can be a competitive advantage. Automation is one strategy that can help a company improve its service quality and provide faster order fulfillment times.

And there is no way anyone could, even if the military was twice as conscientious. It is unknowable, unless you assume that every act of abuse is immediately reported up the chain of command.

An enemy that's working in an amorphous network that doesn't have to worry about a bunch of regulations, chain of command, rule of law or anything else has got a huge advantage over a stultified, slow-moving, bureaucratic, by-the-book organization,

are in the present deployment condition, even an unintentional, even a small incident can spark a chain of events ... not in (the) interest of peace.

A primary goal of those who would disrupt the supply chain is to damage the U.S. economy by any means. If commerce is disrupted in a way that damages the ability of Americans to hold well-paying jobs, provide for their families and generate economic growth that helps the entire world, either through an attack or ill-conceived regulation of our international system, then terrorists will have achieved one of their key goals.

A new chain letter has entered the charts claiming that the MSN will be closed down unless the bogus email is forwarded to family, friends and colleagues. As always, these chain letters are best deleted as they waste bandwidth.

As expected, it was a messy quarter. Retail was expected to be fairly weak, maybe there was a little more weakness in the supply chain services than investors had expected.

As a result, the swings between March and April in the Census figures tend to be smaller than the swings in the retailers' report. Chain store results from the retailers may overstate the weakness in March.

As a community bank we need to offer our customers a level of service that the large chain banks just can't seem to provide. That means we staff all of our offices with local lenders who have loan approval authority for faster service. We place a high importance on the little things like returning phone calls promptly and having documents ready on time. We put a lot of effort into teaching our employees the profession of banking so that they can properly answer your questions. We also have a great deal of respect for the traditional coastal businesses like fishing, logging and tourism and look for ways to help make them successful.

The bottom line is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And I have to believe from past experience and knowledge that some of the links in Homeland Security are weak. Part of the story in "Lost Light" is about a weak link in the chain.

Avnet Logistics fills a gap in the logistics services industry. With our deep experience in the electronics industry and comprehensive supply chain visibility, Avnet Logistics combines the best of being a vertical market provider with the operational excellence and supply chain efficiencies inherent to a $13 billion Fortune 200 company.

Automated systems can capture an electronic recording of every product movement thereby creating an electronic chain of custody.

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

As of yesterday, the report was still 'working its way' up the chain of command to senior Pentagon leaders, ... This is highly disturbing and raises questions about how seriously the administration and the White House were taking these allegations.

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

That's what I want to invoke on them. This is bigger than them and it is sport and it's a chain of events and in 10 years someone else will be doing what you're doing at what are you leaving behind for them.

That takes a part of your supply chain and puts it in control of somebody else. You might not know what's going on on a day-to-day basis, or week-to-week basis, and then you have to understand how they're handling risks at their factory.

A late Easter this year, following an early one last year, contributed to weakness in chain store sales in March, and should ensure strength in April.

This is evidence of a structural change an economic chain reaction.

This is an example of how closely we are tied to the global economic chain of crude oil. We're often asked how a strike in Nigeria or an incident in Russia could have an effect on us here.

This is an outstanding opportunity for Marc, as he will bring a global perspective to an Information Systems Division that provides critical support to our international markets as well as our merchandising and supply chain organizations.

This is another link in a chain between community colleges and the UNC system.

This is the first time that the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice has filed against a hotel chain on a nationwide basis.

This is the commonly prescribed medication to fill in what is a missing piece in the contraception picture. All women should have it as backup. Every single other chain complies with state laws.

The weakest link in the recovery chain still remains the consumer, but as long as business confidence continues to improve, there is a better chance of faster job creation and a better fillip for consumer confidence down the road.

The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.

The weakest link in the chain are your clients.

The whole idea is to get in the supply chain and up the supply chain as far as we can,

This could be a big break if Pappas testifies as to why those dogs were used and who ordered the dogs to be used. It's a steppingstone going up the chain of command, and that's positive. It might demonstrate that it wasn't just a few rotten apples.

This construction is part of the ongoing Chain of Rocks deficiency project to correct design deficiencies and assure that the Chain of Rocks levee will withstand a future 500-year flood event.

This confidence in business conditions also is reflected in the survey responses to the annual question regarding anticipated capital equipment expenditures. This year, 62 percent of supply chain managers plan to increase capital equipment expenditure in 2006; only 10 percent said they plan to cut back on capital expenditures. This is a marked difference from previous years, and suggests continued positive economic news for Arizona in the near term.

Think of it more as a supply chain preservation instead of a gizmo here or a gizmo there.

Think in terms of a web of interaction and a chain of interactions.

They should have a laptop computer with a white sticker with the U.S. Census Bureau sticker on it, an identification badge, that is usually on a chain and a letter from the bureau.

This is an area that the chain stores don't bother with. We provide a personal service to the individual looking for a particular book. It may take us a while and a lot of research but we usually deliver.

This is a cyclical business and so there is always someone in the supply chain who wins and someone who loses,