The fall in unit labour costs over the past few years temporarily boosted profits.
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.
The firm said it expects sales for its telecom unit to fall 10% in 2012.
The struggling smartphone maker has seen its BlackBerry unit sales fall year-over-year for the last five consecutive quarters.
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While you would not know it from the outcry, the trust sector was already beginning to fray around the edges as some of the riskier vehicles cut distributions and saw their unit prices fall.
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But its SFR mobile unit saw revenues fall 7.3% in the year as it is still adapting to regulatory price cuts.
In 2009, the Semiconductor Industry Association expects personal computers to drop by 5.0% and cell phone unit shipments to fall by 9.0%.
Setting aside all the flawed assumptions that undergird those fears, you know what has happened to unit cohesion since the fall of don't ask, don't tell?
Instead nominal wages would rise a bit, real wages only a little and unit labour costs would then fall to more internationally competitive levels.
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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On tablets, she notes that purchase intentions are more than triple the installed base, while pointing out that unit share is likely to fall slightly due to the Amazon Kindle Fire.
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Mr Burbage is also confident that once production at the firm's mile-long factory in Fort Worth ramps up to 17 aircraft a month, as planned, the more pessimistic unit-cost projections will start to fall.
But if productivity growth suddenly increases, workers are initially happy with the previous pace of real wage gains, so unit labour costs decline, allowing both unemployment and inflation to fall.
The 300-unit project, which is slated to start this summer and finish in the fall of 2015, is in partnership with DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners.
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