They are curbing run-away energy with a combination of micro-level controls (for individual servers, power distribution units, air-flow controllers, and cooling units) as well as macro-level controls and policies (for racks of servers, rows of racks, and entire data centers).

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The other half worked on the back end, crunching computer code to build systems for order-processing, distribution and inventory flow and to integrate a new Web site tracking system with the existing ones.

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Beginning in 1992 Lowe's started building massive 1-million-square-foot distribution centers to regulate the flow of goods to stores.

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We focus on the cash economics of a business, the cash-flow generation of that business, and the distribution of that cash flow to shareholders.

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The sneaky play here is to minimize the salary paid to owner-operators, who thereby avoid a social security tax (FICA on W-2 forms), and simply flow the income through as a distribution.

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Every major international company is already manufacturing and developing sales and distribution channels in the country, and a steady flow of up-and-coming Chinese companies are entering the market, even the premium and high-technology segments, every year.

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But the Internet--which guarantees the free flow of information, speech, money, talent and ideas, and speeds up the distribution of these good things ... and therefore makes markets more perfect ... and therefore wrings out inflation and waste--offers the possibility, once slim but now becoming more probable by the day, that the good times can run a long while.

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