In Britain, such funds, locally known as unit trusts, have become a booming industry, thanks to a deep stockmarket and a modest social-security system.
This year TRW will derive nearly two thirds of its revenues from auto parts, where prices are falling as fast as unit volumes are rising.
Within the euro, it has suffered a big loss of competitiveness as unit labour costs have shot up, largely because productivity has been stagnant or even fallen.
He sees revenue from televisions growing 20% to 25% from last year, even as unit sales stay flat, with consumers moving up to larger sets and digital pictures.
Booming demand has helped shares of Garmin, which holds more than half the U.S. market for GPS devices, rise more than 85%, even as unit prices continue to plummet.
Yet both will fall back to earth in 2013 as unit growth decelerates, margins come under pressure in response to intensifying competition, and earnings growth drops into the low single digits.
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And all of you know something that America should never forget: Just as you rise or fall as one unit, we rise or fall as one nation.
Barrick said it is looking to sell some non-core assets such as its energy unit, as well as mines with short lives and high operating costs.
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Investors have long hankered for the split, as most see the publishing unit as a drag on earnings and revenues.
In a February interview, Ryan Records, a vice president of payments and cards at Starbucks, highlighted rising amounts of money being loaded on the Starbucks Card, a holiday-season spike in new loyalty program members and strong mobile app downloads as reason to see the unit as being increasingly relevant to Starbucks.
Do you analyze your 401(k) and your spouse's as a unit in optimizing investment allocations?
They are all working as one unit, trying to ride out this wave and survive.
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The bodies get pretzelled together, limbs and heads intertwined, the three men working as a unit.
Argentines use the dollar as their unit of account for all but the most immediate purposes.
"As a unit we're delighted to pick up 20 wickets and win a Test, " he said.
Countries like Poland could use the euro as a unit of account without even joining the union.
The father-of-two from Burnley, Lancashire, was shot as the unit practised in Newton Heath on 9 June, 2008.
The ARTAS is used in conjunction with a hair replacement technique known as Follicular Unit Extraction, or FUE.
Sure, we could have waited longer and discovered more about ourselves as a unit and therefore been better parents.
Visiting teams now must be introduced as a unit 10 minutes before kickoff.
Two pairs of firefighters, each pair with one hose, worked as one unit.
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And the Durham paceman said the team was gelling well as a unit.
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Walls, floors, pipes, kitchen and roof are assembled in a factory then transported, as a unit, to the building site.
"We've all played against some of the England guys for their counties but never against them as a unit, " added Murtagh.
"I think it's important to look at broader family functioning, in terms of how families work as a unit, " he says.
Privately held Data Transmission Network of Omaha started in 1984 as a unit of grain giant Scoular and went public in 1987.
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The back four defended well as a unit, operating close together, covering each other and forming a barrier which was rarely pierced.
"It's not just about the back four, it's about defending as a unit and becoming more solid all over the pitch, " he said.
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