The existing US grid is really an ad hoc assembly of many networks that grew together and gradually developed interties and the ability to sell power to each other.

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In reply to a question from the SDLP's Conall McDevitt, the minister said the process of putting the existing policy of providing places for all children through the assembly would be "a distraction".

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Welsh Secretary David Jones has rejected calls for the National Assembly for Wales to have more members - and suggested the existing 60 AMs should work longer hours instead.

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She argued that the existing settlement was unsustainable, and that the vote today was the most important vote in the history of the assembly.

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Ericsson will take on the design, development and sales of the LTE multimode thin modem products, including 2G, 3G and 4G multimode, while ST will take on the existing ST-Ericsson products, other than LTE multimode thin modems, and related business as well as certain assembly and test facilities.

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