1.   A bigger unit can take more casualties before its combat worthiness is eroded.

2.   Three-quarters of providers were confident that this unit can take on the competition and two-thirds believed they were in good shape to do so.

3.   As corporate structures became leaner, operating units took over the responsibility for costs that were once assigned to headquarters.

4.   Deflated, the unit takes up less space than a set of golf clubs.

5.   Electric units take less maintenance than gasoline-powered machines and are also quieter and less polluting.

6.   Five hundred Colombian police and army units took part in the rescue effort.

7.   For the Parsippany, New Jersey-based HFS, the new unit will take advantage of an existing direct-marketing operation.

8.   If Southern gets the company, it will negotiate with the industry regulator for the new Southern unit to take on the debt.

9.   Intensely loyal to General Abdurrashid Dostum, the unit takes its name from the native province of the notorious warlord.

10.   Mannesmann AG said its CNI Communications Network International GmbH unit will take over management of the DBKom joint telecommunications venture with Deutsche Bahn AG.