Currently, Afghan units are stationed where the Americans are, in hundreds of small bases, mostly in populated areas.
"It comes back to the fact that they still have relatively small bases of consumers using these things, " said Sucharita Mulpuru, principal analyst at Forrester Research.
Eventually, a few thousand people tuned in every day, from DC offices, to our small bases scattered around Iraq and Afghanistan, to locations in Europe and the region.
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As American military vehicles and troops start to arrive in Bosnia -- taking a 30-kilometer (20-mile) road toward Tuzla that they've dubbed "Route Arizona" -- some are setting up a series of small bases in the Posavina Corridor, a narrow neck of land connecting Serb territories in eastern and western Bosnia.
The small opposition parties that it had legalised are largely discredited and have only small local bases.
With small customer bases over which to spread their fixed costs, they tend to charge higher fees per dollar invested.
The speakers before me laid out the demographic case for the inevitability of a great many changes the aging populations of small towns, increasing urbanization and the steep decline of conventional manufacturing bases in small industrial cities across Ontario and around the world.
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Given the need to operate at scale, corporations partner with associations and organizations with large bases of small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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Other Kenyan banks, particularly Kenya Commercial Bank, also are expanding their customer bases by targeting small borrowers in the informal economy, but none have caught up with Equity, which pioneered the idea of signing the unbanked in Kenya and fortified its position with the nation's largest network of storefront banking agents.
Bacterial genomes are small fry compared with those of eukaryotes such as C. elegans: some 4m-5m bases long at most.
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