So what appears only a single for Vringo may turn into multiple base hits.

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Load balancing means dividing and distributing the workload between multiple base stations.

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Top bankers and financial traders can earn bonuses multiple times their base salaries.

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On top of that, those senior officers will be required to hold GE stock pegged to a multiple of their base salary.

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When you make a wireless connection, the signals between you and the base station scatter off in multiple directions, but only a fraction of the signal actually hits its intended target.

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They base that on the fact that Class 4 cards from multiple manufacturers seem vulnerable.

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Unlike most traders who base their decisions on their favorite indicators, we use multiple market models, which, themselves are made up of multiple indicators.

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In multiple restructurings, Hurd sent packing thousands of HP workers and he cut base pay for many of those who remained.

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Judges should pay more attention to this analysis, since they base their generous fee awards upon the theory that firms like Robbins Geller need a rich multiple to continue the valuable work of suing corporations.

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Other major themes at the show, judging from pre-CTIA email pitches, include cloud-based services that will store media and stream it to multiple devices, mobile video editing tools, easy ways to monitor data usage and ever-smaller cellular base stations.

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