1. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
2. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand elsewhere.
3. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
4. So, the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price sensitive.
5. For instance, only SavOn Drug stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
6. Then, stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private-label diapers.

1. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
2. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to offer unique value.
3. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough trade offs in choosing what not to do.
4. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
5. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval while constantly improving and extending its distinctive positioning.
6. When a company's activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.

1. As officials their vision of a country shouldn't run too far beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.
2. Ambassadors have to choose their words.
3. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring part of what they know.
4. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence.
5. They do a specialized job and it is necessary for them to live ceremonial lives.

1. “This face off will continue for several months given the strong convictions on either side,” says a senior functionary of the high-powered task force on drought.
2. During the past week-and-half, the Central Government has sought to deny some of the earlier apprehensions over the impact of drought.
3. The recent revival of the rains had led to the emergence of a line of divide between the two.
4. The state governments, on the other hand, allege that the Centre is downplaying the crisis only to evade its full responsibility of financial assistance that is required to alleviate the damage.
5. Shrill alarm about the economic impact of an inadequate monsoon had been sounded by the Centre as well as most of the states, in late July and early August.

1. This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expeditions to Equador near the Equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the middle of the earth the arc was about a kilometer shorter.
2. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was the exact nature of the shape of the earth.
3. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the equatorial latitudes than at the poles.
4. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen longitude or meridian at one-degree latitude separation.
5. While it was generally known that the earth was not a sphere but an ‘oblate spheroid’, more curved at the equator and flatter at the poles, the question of ‘how much more’ way yet to be established.