The Boy Scouts relies on "chartered organizations" to provide facilities and sponsorship for the individual units.

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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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Several electric utilities have looked at what happens to energy use when individuals either buy Individual House Display (IHD) units for their homes or volunteer to use devices donated by the utilities.

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"On November 1, 2012, officials at the (Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System) reported that while conducting pharmacy inspection rounds on the inpatient units, they discovered that insulin pens intended for individual patient use were found in the supply drawer of the medication carts without a patient label on them, " said the memo, obtained by CNN through the office of U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, D-New York.

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Leases, on individual or multiple units within the building, are available for up to 10 years, or possibly longer.

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Economies of networking arise on the demand side of the market, when consumers buy a product in groups rather as individual units, the larger the number of consumers joining the group, the greater the benefit for each consumer.

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Individual business units make big strategic decisions too: a major systems upgrade is clearly a critical decision for the IT organization.

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