Representative JEB HENSARLING (Republican, Texas): Mr. Speaker, today the Democrat majority in Congress will no doubt ram through a bill representing the single-largest step in Washington-controlled, bureaucratized, rationed, socialized healthcare.
We agreed to keep phasing out fossil fuel subsidies -- perhaps the single-most important step we can take in the near term to fight climate change and create clean-energy economies.
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Teva was seeking agency approval to sell the newer version of the drug a single tablet called Plan B One-Step in store aisles to all women of child-bearing age.
And in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, a group led by Haroun Ahmed at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in Britain reports another vital step, a single-electron transistor that, for the first time, amplifies its input signal (though only by a factor of 3.7, several hundred times more weakly than a conventional transistor does).
Leslie Norwalk, former acting administrator of the agency that oversees Medicare, said opponents see the buy-in idea as another step toward increased government control, and eventually a single-payer system.
"This is, at best, a single step forward on the proverbial thousand-mile journey, " said Jared Genser, one of Suu Kyi's lawyers who is based in the United States.
As for the euro, joining the single currency looks a risky step, particularly for the larger ex-communist countries so a slippage in the timetable may be no bad thing.
When Lao-tzu said a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, implicitly he was telling you to take that first step.
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And therein lies the single biggest reason why the Iraq occupation may prove to have been a huge mis-step for America.
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Now, no single step is the silver bullet that will reverse the damage done by the bubble-and-bust cycles that caused our economy into this slide.
The crisis has exposed acute new questions, such as how to marry Europe's cross-border single market for finance with the reality that only national governments can and will step in when things go wrong.
Spider is a step toward AMD's goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.
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