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...But the question we raised is does franchising success ultimately rely on two of America’s most acute pathologies: excessive leverage and exploiting cheap labour?...
...“With hurricanes, we have some notice so we mobilise a lot of resources ahead of the storm and bring in a lot of extra supplies, a lot of extra food,” said Mr Ehmer....
...America was not envisioned as a haven for persecuted sects; rather it was a potential source of valuable resources as well as a way station on the road to Cathay....
...Another company at the frontier of code-that-writes-code is Queue Software in Raleigh, North Carolina....
...Both are based in North Carolina, offering substantial scope for cost savings; Duke has its headquarters in Charlotte, while Progress’ is 130 miles away in Raleigh....
...Soon after the IBM-Lenovo deal was closed, for example, call centre employees at IBM’s operations centre in Raleigh, North Carolina thought up the idea of videotaping each other throwing their IBM badges...
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