one of three dimensions of the supply chain network design; the number of tiers in the supply chain, representing the total number of levels through which goods and services must pass from the earliest to end stages of the chain
A passive activity loss for the tax year is the excess of your passive activity deductions over your passive activity gross income. What are the passive activity limitations? Your passive activity losses are limited to the amount of your passive activity income for the taxable year.
The state-of-the-art defense allows a defendant to be absolved of liability if he can prove that the state of technical and scientific knowledge, at the time when he put the product into circulation, was not such as to enable the existence of the defect to be discovered.