The branch also oversaw a variety of cross-cutting issues, including cybersecurity, counterterrorism spending, and information sharing and safeguarding.

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The government's new cross-cutting units are enabling it to address issues, particularly those related to social deprivation, that had previously been largely ignored by Whitehall's departmental baronies.

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Clearly, there are a wealth of political issues at play here assertive unions, flamboyant Tea Partiers, cross-cutting state and city legislators. (The Republican Governor will outline his vision for the referendum this morning.) But a real challenge for the transit plan, one that spans 10 counties, is its very intentional regionalism.

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