By lowering the bar for who can own a franchise unit, a chain might recruit undercapitalized, struggling franchisees who end up having to close their units.

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He later became president of a Litton Industries unit called Intermec, a maker of bar-code scanners.

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In order to drive performance and raise the bar, we established Ferd Social Entrepreneurs as a separate business unit with their own management, strategy, and allocation.

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The BBC travel unit said there were long delays back to junction 24 at Potters Bar even after the road reopened.

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Apparently the unit will display its wares in Sony's XMB Xross Media Bar format, as seen on the company's PSP and PS3 consoles.

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The prototype unit here in Germany was showcased alongside of the GP-1 GPS dongle and a BR-1 bar code scanning module, with the latter meant more for governments and enterprises.

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