For instance, the Marine Corps is exploring how the vessel might be used as a troop carrier for small expeditionary units and their equipment, since in addition to all that space the littoral warship can launch and recover both boats and helicopters.
This Pure Stereo technology, invented by a researcher at Princeton University, has been licensed to companies that will manufacture small wireless units for consumers and businesses.
He will also point out that the army is going ahead with plans to set up more special units for the small but growing number of haredim who are already leaving the yeshivas and enlisting.
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As well as two fuel-cell systems for vehicles (one for cars, another for buses and lorries), there are separate systems for large and small generators fridge-sized units running on natural gas to provide electricity for a building that is not attached to the grid.
Many of Green's properties tend to be "age-targeted" rather than "age-restricted, " with a small percentage of units reserved for younger buyers.
It has since been involved in "a number of massive deals for Linux desktops" and they're even in a "massive deal right now for... multi-thousands of units of a desktop opportunity for Linux, " claims Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing at HP.
That can potentially open a can of worms, because if the tax deductions are reduced for corporations and not for small businesses, then many savvy corporations could either break off into small units, or relocate where taxes are lower if changes to the statutory rate do not make up for the loss from closing the tax deductions.
As the value of the fund's investments slumped, the government last year had to promise small investors that it would buy back units in the fund for much more than their market worth.
The Atlantic Force, with primary responsibility for Europe and the Middle East, consisted of a relatively small set of units providing forward presence backed up by heavy conventional forces, including a large ground contingent.
One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
It is hoped parts of the main abbey would be restored for tours and events, and two stable blocks turned into visitor areas and small business units.
The organizational unit through which these results are to be achieved at Haier is the ZZJYT: small, autonomous units of ten to twenty people, each with direct responsibility for a geographical area, a product, or a manufacturing process and seen as an entrepreneurial platform in an otherwise large, complex organization.
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As The Economist went to press, it looked likely that a diluted version of the Volcker rule would pass, allowing banks to keep running hedge-fund and private-equity units for clients who want to invest in them, and perhaps to keep putting a small share of their own capital in them as well.
For those not scrutinizing every small development of the Creative Zen Vision like we have been, they've started shipping units, and peeps actually started getting theirs by mail directly from Creative as early as yesterday.
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