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The company was forced to search for an outside supplier.

Data communications and other network services, too, are open to outside suppliers.

The union is now trying instead to organize more of the outside suppliers.

Outside suppliers, many with nonunion workers, would do much of the work.

Such a deal could work only if Iran returned the spent fuel to the outside suppliers.

Their earnings are down sharply this year due to a problem with an outside supplier.

When even overtime will not keep up with demand, the manufacturers want to be able to turn to outside suppliers.

A company spokesman said an outside supplier was responsible and that the problem would be fixed in a month.

Instead, they will have to bid against outside suppliers.

That most of the wines were made and packaged by outside suppliers meant nothing.

Other car makers buy a larger percentage of parts from outside suppliers at lower prices.

The company has also closed down some production operations and switched to buying from outside suppliers.

"We began to approach the marketing of these brands more aggressively, as if they were coming in from outside suppliers."

The platform company contracts production to outside suppliers, often in low wage countries.

If we can't, then using outside suppliers is an alternative."

And, finally, the inspectors are worried about outside suppliers.

Outside suppliers that now bill patients or the Medicare program would bill the hospital.

The company is using outside suppliers to provide more parts and reducing employment through attrition.

Several executives said they had increased spot inspections of restaurants and outside suppliers.

Instead, they rely on outside suppliers that are seldom unionized.

American officials said the arrangement effectively closed two-thirds of the Canadian market to outside suppliers.

Those concerns came on top of the worries about contracting with outside suppliers, which the local feared could cost 1,900 jobs, he said.

When developing criteria for selecting an outside supplier, a firm should keep some basics in mind.

A Ford manager who asked not to be identified said the fasteners had been made by an outside supplier.

Meanwhile, the utilities that own the plant are forced to buy costly power from outside suppliers.