This reform merged many towns and districts to create more viable units.

As land is passed on over the generations, it gradually ceases to be a viable unit.

"We have to produce 500,000 pounds a year to have a viable unit," he said.

We have screened them as well as we could, and believe they represent a viable unit.

Some small chiefdoms were amalgamated to make fewer, economically more viable units.

We obviously want to see those companies continue as viable units.

With the emergence of proto-industrialization and early capitalism, the nuclear family became a financially viable social unit.

This was done and also many very small farms were consolidated into viable units.

The primary aim of land law was the preservation of families as viable economic units.

"No new development will occur that does not provide replacement housing for demolished viable units," the budget documents say.