When Mrs. Hewitt sued Habana over her mother's death, for example, she found that its owners and managers had spread control of Habana among 15 companies and five layers of firms.
A thick, buttery layer of firm, caramelized apples sitting on top of crunchy pastry.
The skin was chewy and crunchy, with a compressed layer of firm meat underneath, basted in fat.
The most desirable pork is grayish pink in colour, firm and fine-grained, well-marbled, and covered with an outer layer of firm white fat.
An egg cut in half lengthwise reveals internal layers, including a tough white outer peridium, and a thick layer of firm, translucent, gelatinous matter transversed by strands (trabeculae) of denser white tissue.
There is a thick layer of firm white flesh, and the decurrent gills are particularly crowded and narrow, sharing the white colouration of the stem but becoming creamy with age.
Mr Chase is a 38-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, who until recently worked in the middle-management layers of a courier firm called Rush Delivery and seemed destined to remain entirely unremarkable.
Rather than seeing them as an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy, firms should concentrate on developing managers with enough initiative to balance the needs of the company's day-to-day operations against the need to implement the board's wider strategy.
Everybody is bundled up in layers and layers of fur.
Only two layers of executives separate the firm's 110 plant managers from Hickey, who routinely calls them directly and still makes sales calls himself.
