The brisk start saw the unit gain after a February producer price report highlighted a pick-up in the pace of input costs to a 6.6% pace compared with one year ago.

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Sometimes this unit can be hard to justify for the high price, but the sound partly makes up for it.

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Because the number of potential customers for such experimental sensors is small, the firms manufacturing them have to charge a high price per unit just to cover the fixed costs of designing the product, setting up the factory, and so forth.

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The minister replied that a charge of up to 70p per unit could be imposed, and that the higher the price the greater the effect in combating the ill-effects of alcohol.

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Seadrill Partners has granted the underwriters a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase up to 1, 312, 500 additional common units, at the same price per unit, to cover over-allotments, if any.

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Notebooks and netbooks sales make up 16% of the Trefis price estimate for Dell compared to under 4% for its desktop unit.

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