Dictionary definition: A CHAIN is no stronger than its weakest link

Article: Inventory Management Remains the Weakest Link in ...
PR Newswire;  February 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... CCMI), a supply chain-focused consulting ... made in other supply chain-related activities ... inventory management is the weakest link in the supply chain today, applying new ... 21st century supply chains, but it's not happening ...

Article: Strong chain.("Weakest Link" on daytime ...
Broadcasting & Cable;  June 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... CBS stations grab the strip, NBC's Weakest Link builds muscle across the network spectrum ... Enterprises' syndicated version of Weakest Link. The strip, slated for afternoon time ... in Baltimore would have grabbed the Weakest Link strip, considering NBC Enterprises ...

Article: Biosecurity the chain's weakest link in FMD
The Scotsman;  June 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... and-mouth remains "an unguided missile" threatening animal production, with farm biosecurity the weakest link in the defensive chain. By "an amazing coincidence", he added, the 2001 outbreak had lasted exactly the same eight months ...

Article: Home delivery is weakest link in Internet ...
Marketing Week;  May 18, 2000 ;     648 words ... ... order might even be delivered by the milkman. Forget Net time, home delivery looks poised to remain the weakest link in your fulfilment chain for a while yet. Bernard Frazer is managing director at European health and beauty website VitaGO UK

Article: Estate agents are the weakest link in the ...
Mortgage Strategy;  April 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... buying process yet again. Estate agents are just one link in a complex chain that needs to instil trust and confidence in the public, but at the moment they are the weakest link. We must keep the findings of the Whistleblower programme in perspective ...

Article: NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR FOR A NEW ERA IN CU ADMINISTRATIVE ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... a stolid bureaucrat whose unimpressive public appearances have left the impression he might be the weakest link in CU's administrative chain. But a closer look suggests that link in fact is Tharp, who never told Barnett about Keenan's hostile ...

Article: Don't Yank US lawyer Jill's chain now, Anne; ...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  April 19, 2001 ;     579 words ...Byline: DAVID LEIGH FIERY Weakest Link host Anne Robinson last night ... that's the whole idea of the Weakest Link and that's what makes it such ... tension between the two women as the Weakest Link attempts to win the ratings war ...