Ironically, when a company is very successful and sales increase dramatically, the chances of it having a pipeline to support sustained growth are pretty poor.

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Continued American support for the Nabucco pipeline in the interest of European energy diversity, then, is absolutely critical.

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The provisions on oil drilling in Alaska are probably too controversial to pass, but support for a natural-gas pipeline may be thrown in as a sop to the state instead.

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Mr. Warner, who fancies himself a pro-business moderate but usually votes left, has evidently learned in the last year that the pipeline enjoys huge public backing: 70% of registered voters support its construction, according to a recent Fox News poll.

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Identify, support and collaborate with effective programs that increase diversity in the pipeline.

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In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.

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