When MP3 rolled around and Sony's walkman customers were clamoring for a solid-state MP3 player, Sony let its music business-unit run its show: instead of making a high-capacity MP3 walkman, Sony shipped its Music Clips, low-capacity devices that played brain-damaged DRM formats like Real and OpenAG.

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Mnemonic Photography, run by Steven Bedford and Lindsay Stott, is one of the new Torry businesses, which is being run from a former boarded-up unit.

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Sarabjit Singh is in the intensive care unit of the state-run Jinnah Hospital.

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In May it set up a unit to run its nascent e-commerce operations, preparing to take on established players like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and 360buy.com.

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Campaigners had run an eight-year battle to save the unit.

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Mr Kozlowski himself will run the rump, which combines the security-systems unit with the electronics business.

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The campaign, led by the Strathclyde Police-based Violence Reduction Unit, will run from 1 December to 31 January.

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Consider the Odey Continental European Trust, a British unit trust run by Hugh Hendry, who is also a hedge-fund manager.

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The ELR will run on an electric propulsion system made of a T-shaped lithium ion battery, an electric drive unit and a four-cylinder engine generator.

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After earlier disagreements between the Geneva-based parent organization and its Indian unit, the WWF in 1998 set up an independent office to run the tiger project.

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