But without a big financial reward, it is hard to make cross-selling work.
As cynics note, the fight against piracy has certainly given navies a noble new mission, a claim on budgets and an area for cross-border work to which nobody objects.
Traditional IT infrastructure businesses are seeing a maturing industry that, is driving weakness in sales of sales of add-on work and cross-selling.
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The conduct committee has also examined how cross-party groups work and made several recommendations.
These cross-functional teams work long days in windowless rooms to shape ideas and resolve differences, returning to their ordinary jobs only after the task is completed.
The trade-off is that, while Huffpo bloggers can cross-post their work on other sites and republish it as they please, the Times wants to own what it publishes.
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Corporate app store Web-pages need to work in cross-platform browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari to allow actions to be carried out with the existing Web interface on a mobile device.
While it's possible to skip the sign-in, those who link their account get both cross-platform access to their work as well as cloud-based searches of their more legible writing.
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The Financial Stability Board, a global watchdog, wants the big regulators of cross-border banks to work together in the event that banks need resolving, and many banks hope for such agreements.
According to a recent study by Mercer Oliver Wyman, a consulting group, and Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, cross-border mergers can work if the buyer brings more sophisticated information-technology and risk management to the target.
And I encourage you to proceed with curiosity and openness, so you can use what you discover to create agreements, models and approaches that will work cross-culturally now and into the future, long after your deal is done.
Had anyone seen the child during these two- and three-hour sessions, bringing his soles together and in to train the pectineus, bobbing slightly and then holding a deep cross-legged lean to work the great tight sheet of thoracolumbar fascia that connected his pelvis to his dorsal costae, he would have appeared to that person either prayerful or catatonic, or both.
On the other hand, global economic distress doesn't invariably work at cross-purposes with American interests.
The LaCie 2big and 4big Quadra offer seamless cross-platform compatibility in any work environment.
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In contrast, those companies that excel work in cross-functional teams through the entire process to develop integrated strategies plans, measures and even incentives.
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But now we're at the dawn of a new mode of work requiring cross-collaboration, and somebody who can see all the different facets of a problem is critical.
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"I conducted research with a cross-section of imams who work in prisons and none of them were extremists or jihadists - they were in fact very moderate, " he said on BBC One's Breakfast.
Ministers will consider its findings as they work on a cross-government strategy on adaptation and infrastructure.
The leader of the Alliance Party, David Ford, said parties needed to work on a cross-community basis.
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Swiss Railway reps say that while work on the cross-city link continues full bore, 98.5% of passengers still reach their destination on time.
Crossrail, London: Work on the cross-London rail link is well under way and expected to be fully operational in 2019, improving capacity across the capital.
It said the Treasury should "incentivise departments" to work together on cross-government issues, claiming that too often ministries "concentrate on their own self-interest, protecting their turf".
In relative terms, the Welsh Government is not a particularly large organisation but it is complex and despite work to push cross-cutting policy agendas, many departments still operate within policy silos.
As ministers in all parts of the coalition have said, it is an extremely thorough and thoughtful piece of work representing a cross-party approach in Wales, and we will respond to it with similar seriousness before the spring of this year.
Indeed, health care markets work best when devoid of cross-subsidies from the young to the old.
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"I think an important message that this case sends is that it shows the determination of China and the governments of relevant countries to work hard together to combat cross-border crime, " Hua Chunying spokesman for China's foreign ministry said.
And while many show-runners initially vowed not to cross the picket line, some will soon or have already returned to work in a non-writing capacity, thereby lessening the guild's leverage at the bargaining table.
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