But our business model and unit economics are about as ideal as you can get for a food company to absorb Obamacare.
The model was developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a division of The Economist magazine.
"The successful resolution of this case is a critical step in our overall strategy of enforcing and monetizing our intellectual property, including Basic Haptics, and we're pleased to achieve a settlement that is consistent with our business model, which is largely based on per unit running royalties, " said Immersion CEO Victor Viegas.
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Mediaset, which currently relies on a conventional broadcast model, could strike a deal with the nationalised unit to start selling television via the latter's broadband network.
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The way providers are receive their cut of the shared savings is by receiving an increase in the per unit reimbursement in the fee for service model.
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But it also had some non-original parts, including Model A cranks and rods, an overhead valve unit built for 1920s dirt-track racing and dual carburetors from the 1930s.
For authors and publishers, the agency model provides them with greater control over the timing of their promotions and higher per-unit earnings of 70% of the list price as opposed to 50% for the conventional wholesale pricing model.
The model we tested isn't a production-line unit, but rather a hand-built exemplar for reviewers.
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The model caught us by some surprise as it transpired that the unit was a pre-production teaser, loosed upon the unsuspecting show floor well ahead of its intended May launch.
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While the unit we played with is a pre-production model and will likely be fixed by the time it hits retail, the display was slightly washed out and light was bleeding in from both sides of the panel.
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The camera on the model we played with (which is very much a pre-production unit) was slightly crooked.
We got to spend a little bit of time with a prototype ZTE model, and found the hardware to be solid for a hand-built unit.
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By adjusting its overall shipments and the volume of each unit (iPad Mini sales are now expected to outpace the full-size model), Apple is sending the message that its original stance toward seven-inch tablets was dead wrong.
Through the rest of 2013 and well into next year, the company is likely to look as it does this quarter, with small improvements in unit shipments and gross margin over each quarter until the company begins delivering its Model X crossover late in 2014.
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The media-modeling tool was kicked into high gear two years ago when Chad Jacoby, senior manager of Nissan's Business Intelligence Unit, used years of Nissan's consumer research to build a computer model comparing the relationship of each phase of their "purchase funnel"--from awareness to purchase consideration to a transaction--to the phase before it.
To create One57's model, Extell's design team said they started by imagining who would live in the unit.
Mr Najib, however, has challenges of his own: his political adviser and two officers from a police unit that reports to him are on trial for the murder of a Mongolian fashion model.
The recently established Social Exclusion Unit, headed by Moira Wallace, a feisty new-style Treasury official, is the model to watch.
Compared with both the complex logistical model and the defensive status quo, this heuristic helped the doctors to send more patients to the coronary-care unit who belonged there and fewer who did not.
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