Word: hub
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...company employs a hub-and-spoke distribution system in which all orders are processed through the company's Allston-based distribution center, where bicycle couriers bring orders to customers' doors within an hour...
...overstock on hand. Instead, they place orders as needed, relying on speedy delivery to meet demand. The practice saves on storage costs and expensive markdowns, but it leaves companies at the mercy of delivery systems and the weather that can, literally, derail them. When a huge airline hub like Chicago is slowed down by inclement weather, companies feel it across the country...
...incarnation, Radcliffe will become a hub of cutting-edge scholarship and research and, I believe, the source of many solutions to challenges facing the world," Murray said...
...Wireless The year 2000 will bring the death of the cable. It's in the air: people are tired of having to plug things in. Look at Apple's iMac-friendly wireless AirPort hub, or the Palm VII, or the continuing development of the wireless standard known as BlueTooth, or hand-held Internet devices such as the RIM Pager. The technology is there. The desire is there. Plus, it's actually useful. MORE...