Dell is working to as much as quadruple those margins through wider distribution of higher end units like its Alienware gaming PCs.

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And it's clear now that Apple has many million units of that "special something" already sitting in distribution centers around the country.

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In-kind distribution - Unitholders may generally request an in-kind distribution of the securities underlying the units if they own 2, 500 or more units at either the time of purchase or maturity.

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Note that each conference under this distribution system is assured of receiving at least 6 units annually (a scenario that would arise if a conference only placed one team in the tournament for 6 consecutive years, and their teams fail to win a single game).

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The prime beneficiary of the move will be Icahn himself: he owns 93% of the company and intends to take his distribution in additional depositary units.

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They are curbing run-away energy with a combination of micro-level controls (for individual servers, power distribution units, air-flow controllers, and cooling units) as well as macro-level controls and policies (for racks of servers, rows of racks, and entire data centers).

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At the more dubious end of the scale is NAV again, with an index of 2.5 years, pretty depressing given that it would take today's buyer of the units at least six years to recover the purchase price (assuming the monthly distribution stays constant).

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Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).

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