The early Pacific Andes business model--seed others' fishing fleets and then use a complex network of sourcing and transshipping (acting as middleman between catch boats and markets)--left it seemingly in cahoots with what amounts to ocean poaching.

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The wide-body, twin-engine jet relies on a complex network of electrical systems rather than traditional pneumatic systems.

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Europe's food retailers depend on a complex network of brokers, cold stores and meat-cutting plants around the continent from which to source the ingredients wherever they are cheapest, says the BBC's Christian Fraser, in Paris.

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The reason the billionaire oligarchs feel it is a legitimate fear that they could be left high and dry is because it will take many months for them to sell their stake: the sale would require regulatory approval and also the unwinding of the complex network of international companies through which they own their stake in TNK-BP.

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Next came the collapse of Gescartera, a stockbroking house run by an ambitious financier, he too with well-placed friends: a complex tale of greed, nepotism and fraud that cast a vivid light on Spain's traditional old-boy network in business.

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