Early results are promising: The cross-selling pipeline is growing, and account planning across generalists and specialists is working well.

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Rep. Henry Waxman in a letter yesterday urged Sec. of State Hillary Clinton to block permits for the cross-border pipeline.

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Once the comment period is over, Clinton will make her decision based on whether the cross-border pipeline is in the national interest.

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Gas deliveries to Israel dried up for a total of 225 days in 2011 and 66 days during the first three months of 2012, and ceased after an explosion on 5 March, according to Ampal-American Israel Corporation - a stakeholder in East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG), which operates the cross-border pipeline.

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Because the proposed pipeline would cross the US border it will require a State Department permit determining the project to be in the national interest.

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Since the pipeline will cross America's borders, the authority to approve or block it rests with the State Department, which says it will rule by the end of the year.

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The "new Europeans" from the east are pushing the EU to get serious about developing new sources of energy -- starting with the stalled Nabucco pipeline that would cross Turkey and the Balkans, routing Central Asian gas around Russia.

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It was simply because the Republicans decided to play politics with a completely unrelated issue, in terms of the extension of the payroll tax cut, to try to I guess curry favor with some political constituency or the other when there was no way to, in accordance with tradition and regulation, to adequately and properly review a pipeline that would cross an international border.

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Motorola, after all, has been in the wireless business for many years and has a lot of patents, lots of cross licenses, and more patents in the pipeline.

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