Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from piracy. If Bain is able to reach 5% of that potential audience, he could easily recover his costs and turn a handsome profit. From there, the film could travel the traditional distribution route: video, pay-per-view, hbo and finally free TV. Says Bain: "This reverses the distribution chain. We can be in the revenue stream first and exploit all the nontheatrical opportunities ourselves. We can cut out that whole middle layer...
...girl does not wield a sword or a stake, does not have a pinup's bod, does not even sport a radiant mane of natural curls. What Lindsay Weir has is a prodigious brain that she's slightly uncomfortable with, an olive-drab jacket weighing on her shoulders like chain mail and--something rare enough among prime-time adults, let alone teens--a genuine crisis of faith. Having witnessed, alone, the death of her grandmother--who told Lindsay, as she slipped away, that she saw "nothing" beyond--Lindsay is questioning the justness of the world and her own place...
...primary hurdles to widespread adoption of B2B strategies are not technological but organizational and all too human, in the view of Stanford University professor Hau Lee, who has spent his career studying supply-chain management. "Large corporations," he says, "are slower to let go of old business practices. They believe maintaining the status quo will help them preserve their commanding position as a market leader...
...Chain of Events...
...conflicts between faculty, students and administrators set off a chain events which would change Harvard forever...