There are set-up costs that make per-unit expense lower for large production runs than for short runs.
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The highest-profile is arguably ProPublica, an investigative-reporting unit set up in 2008 with help from the Sandler Foundation.
They have already won a small victory: an American-financed army unit set up last year to clear coca farmers' roadblocks in the Chapare (formerly the main growing area) is being disbanded, after several mistakes by trigger-happy troops.
Or the Crack Intelligence Co-Coordinating Unit, set up with the blessing of the home secretary in 1989 but also dissolved a few years later - unwisely in the view of many who had been tracking the damage inflicted by the newly-emerging drug, crack cocaine?
In anticipation of the new regulations, DB set up a new derivative exchange-clearing unit called Markets Clearing for listed and over-the-counter derivatives for interest rates, foreign exchange, credit, commodities and equities contracts.
Vodafone, a mobile-phone operator, has just set up a mobile health unit in Britain.
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.
Brown set up a stand-alone security-and-privacy unit two years ago.
The unit was set up to look at the long-term delivery and implementation of the government's 10-year plans.
And not just in America: in Germany, where the long years of low birth rates will reduce the size of the pool over the coming decade, Kienbaum, the country's leading pay consultancy, recently set up a special unit to comb academe for youthful high-fliers.
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.
The manager will need to set up firewalls around the sales unit to prevent it being infected by money-driven behavior, unless and until the firm as a whole transitions to customer capitalism and the radical management needed to support it.
The gang rented a unit under a false name in Newton-Le-Willows where the laboratory was set up.
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