One challenge for a large IT project is that the county has 20 cities, six towns, and nine villages, each with its own government.

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Whether it be cyber security, large-scale project management or the adoption of light technologies, we are making progress and we will close the IT gap.

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He said that whatever happens from National Grid's point of view it was a "large and complex project" and the company "needs to get on with the early design and development of the project".

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The developer of One57, one of New York's priciest condo buildings, is mixing it up and moving forward with a large rental project on Manhattan's West Side.

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In August, China said it would begin developing a large-scale demonstration project in 10 or more cities to put at least 1, 000 hybrid, fuel-cell and all-electric vehicles on the road in each of those cities and provide the necessary infrastructure for the project.

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The chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge, said it was a very small amount for such a large project.

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This business is a large undertaking and yet it is clear that Nasreen will not stop working until she sees this project through to the end.

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The project is one of several large-screen technologies under development by Microsoft which it believes will become more common both at work and home in the future.

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But when you begin to dig into it, for a country as large and spread out as the United States, it is a fiendishly expensive and wildly impractical project to undertake.

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