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duplex

noun

House made up of two dwelling units

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They would regale you with tales of how they were just back from the Costa Brava having bought two duplex apartments next to an 18-hole golf course, or that they and their siblings had just purchased a series of buy-for-rent flats at Sunny Beach on the Bulgarian Black Sea.

So a better option is duplex printing: printing at full size, on both sides of each sheet.

According to a recent European Union "green purchasing" guide, duplex printing can cut costs by 38% over the life of a printer.

Citigroup once estimated that it could save $700,000 a year and eliminate 76 tonnes of solid waste if every employee saved only one sheet of paper per week by using duplex printing or copying.

There are hedgies and investment bankers galore, especially from Goldman Sachs, which helped the Zeckendorf brothers finance the development, and got a discount for its boss, Lloyd Blankfein, when he splashed out $26m on a duplex.

The real challenge, as the EU guide notes dryly, is persuading people to "actually use the duplex function".Using clever fonts, making toner cartridges last longer and saving paper are all bottom-up ways to cut printing costs.

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Transmitting data at a rate of 1,200 bits, or 1.2 kilobits, per second over full-duplex telephone circuits, the Bell 212 made use of phase-shift keying, or PSK, to modulate a 1,800-hertz 1,800-hertznal.

In mid-1990 the CCITT began to consider the possibility of full-duplex transmission over the PSTN at even higher rates than those allowed by the upgraded V.32 standard.

Seven years later an upgraded V.32 standard was issued, permitting 14.4-kilobit-per-second 14.4-kilobit-per-second 14.4-kilobit-per-second 14.4-kilobit-per-second

In this little duplex-flat, the interior walls violently coloured under the influence of the painter Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier exhibited his first collection of industrially produced furniture.

Beginning in 1980, a concerted effort was made by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT; a predecessor of the ITU) to define a new standard for modems that would permit full-duplex data transmission at 9.6 kilobits per second over a single-pair circuit operating over the PSTN.

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