Sentences with phrase «bottom of the chain»

According to Gupta, most grocery startups are struggling because they source from retailers, who are at the bottom of the chain and struggle to make margins.

Step 5: Hook on the metal head pins with the beads onto the bottom of the chains.

If your dog is a digger - and most dogs are, - either bury the bottom of the chain link fence at least eighteen inches or lay chicken wire along the perimeter line of the fence so she can't dig below the fence.

While I have treated the old Aircard as part of an escalating set of tools and at the bottom of the chain (my connection of last resort) I might be tempted to make this my main means of connecting outside of the office and home — opting of course for the «all you can surf» unlimited data package.

Not exact matches

«Respect [the chain of command] at the bottom.

Phil Benson, a Vietnam vet who retired about 10 years ago and lives in Bayonne, New Jersey, says that several years ago, he started filling out surveys at the bottom of the receipts he was getting at the office supply chain, Staples.

Grant acknowledges that studies reveal many givers tend to linger at the bottom of the food chain, with low promotion and productivity rates.

There's a lot of competition among fast - food chains to grab the attention of budget - conscious diners, and the spate of new menus has sped up the race to the bottom of the value barrel.

Granted, 24Option offers more or less the same type of products any other broker out there, most of whom are ranked at the very bottom of the food chain.

LRCX is the company at the very bottom of the semiconductor industry food chain.

Looking at the very early hints out of the Alayne chapter, she seems to have bottomed, the thing with LF is that she is slowly observing how he works, eg buy low, sell high, hoard and manipulating the Lords declerant etc and supply chains of food etc etc

«2018 is off to a strong start as we built upon our fourth quarter momentum, reporting another quarter of robust top and bottom - line growth,» Randy Garutti, CEO of the chain, said in a press release.

Likewise, the bottom five chains all serve frozen beef with the exception of Five Guys, which may have weak average unit volume because of its limited menu or its slower speed of service.

«Based on McKinsey's assessment of our technology, Virgin Hyperloop One - enabled supply chains can dramatically impact business bottom lines by reducing both finished goods inventory and required warehouse space by 25 %,» said Rob Lloyd, the chief executive officer of Virgin Hyperloop One.

Hidden at the bottom of this story: potential good news for big chains offering or experimenting with delivery: a cold winter (and spring) doesn't seem to have affected delivery numbers.

Weakening consumer credit metrics at the bottom of the credit chain (i.e., revolving debt and automobiles) imply that large - scale borrowing could be poised for a slowdown.

Widows and orphans found themselves stranded at the bottom of the social food chain.

Do not be like thier father who ran away from his native as I was on the bottom of the food chain living under islam.

Finally, the mainstream Christian view of existence is one of rigid hierarchy, in which a male creator - god occupies the top link in the chain of being, human beings next, and nature — animals, plants, rocks — the bottom.

On the bottom of the spiritual food chain are the children, who are told to submit to their fathers in the annual Father's Day sermon, in Sunday School, in Care Group, in the home during «corrections» (spankings).

Also, please try to keep an updated list of links in the chain at the bottom of your post, and please include these rules at the bottom of your post.

Aristotle (384 - 322BCE), Plato's most brilliant pupil, thought there was a great chain of being from pure matter, which is unknowable, at the bottom, to pure form, which is God, at the top.

We believe that responsible businesses are those who don't just tackle the company bonuses at the top — but take steps to ensure a fairer deal for the workers and farmers at the bottom of the supply chain too,» says Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation.

With OnDemand, Jamba Juice ® maintains control of its supply chain to ensure the highest operational effectiveness, inventory incidents are dealt with seamlessly and bottom - line savings are gained.

1 FAD Exclusive 2 Working incognito on the bottom line provoked the head of an international restaurant chain to make some changes at his company.

Indeed, the ramifications of global food loss and waste hit home throughout the entire food supply chain in every country in the world and reverberate in corporate bottom lines.

Guided by five bottom lines — Sustaining our Business, our Brands, our People, our Community and the Planet — Matthew works with state and federal officials, academia, ingredient suppliers, farmers within Clif agriculture supply chain and the organic industry to improve the success of the rural communities from which we source our food.

That means shellfish, sardines, seaweed, even phytoplankton — all the seafood toward the bottom of the food chain (this is called «low - trophic»), and ideally from your region.

The fans can see d hand writing on d wall to know we r either going on relegation or finish @ d bottom of d chain.

Emtman, who weighs 290 pounds — only 9 % of it fat — and who might as well be carrying firearms as he leads the Husky defensive line, assigns quarterbacks the same rank in the food chain as he does all bottom feeders, and he destroys them with equal gusto and lack of remorse.

A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea is about the food chain of the water dwelling animals living in the sea.

They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

When he took over in 1983 from Michael Foot, he was stuck at the bottom of a disused mine shaft, chained to a bogie.

But the very threat of such legal action could be enough to get people at the bottom and middle of the chain to share what they know, so prosecutors can work their way up.

Bharara's office recently won the conviction of former state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), a one - time Senate president who was sentenced to seven years in prison last month, and the indictment of longtime Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), both very high on the food chain of bottom feeders in the Albany trough.

Karliner and Jonathan Rosner, of the University of Chicago, determined that such a chain reaction wouldn't be possible with bottom quarks, and, before publishing, privately shared their insight with colleagues, who agreed.

The beam and chains disturb or kill many bottom - dwelling organisms, the nets catch unwanted species, and all the tugging requires a lot of diesel.

Optical sensors installed on ships, for instance, can determine ocean water color that reflects the activity of micro-algae at the bottom of the food chain and, when examined alongside satellite color observations, can support extrapolations about what's happening in a given area of ocean.

Plankton are literally at the bottom of the food chain, a source of nourishment for virtually every animal in the sea.

Now the chemistry of the entire ocean was shifting, imperiling coral reefs, marine creatures at the bottom of the food chain, and ultimately the planet's fisheries.

A major thrust of current research is to understand how creatures like these at the bottom of the food chain respond to ocean acidification.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

«We're hammering fish from the top down and now from the bottom up as more acidic oceans erode the base of the food chain,» Cowen says.

But the experts doubt that future analysis of the Thames whale will show high levels of pollutants as this species generally feeds on animals near the bottom of the food chain — such as squid.

These organisms are at the bottom of the marine food chain, and are eaten by other creatures.

They incorporated the lifecycle of phytoplankton and zooplankton — small, often microscopic animals at the bottom of the food chain — into a novel mechanistic model for assessing the global ocean carbon export.

Another $ 50 billion would disappear from the hunting, fishing, and bird - watching industries without the bugs at the bottom of the food chain.

But invisible changes may be the most threatening to human food sources, beginning with the tiny species like plankton that inhabit the bottom of the oceans» food chain.

The same mechanism would likely also mobilize and deliver more nutrients, carbon, and other chemicals into the Arctic Ocean, fueling the growth of plankton at the bottom of the food chain.

The real problem is that the greatest burden generally falls on communities least equipped to deal with it, places that are already economically at the bottom of the food chain.