Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.

到目前为止，许多只在一个州或几个州有实体店的卖家，在往这些州以外的地方运送货物时，都能够避免征收营业税。

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Until I met Sandra at a single weekend party in Catskill in 1972, he was just a little health inspector in New York State.

直到1972年，我在卡茨基尔的一次单身周末聚会上碰到桑德拉，那时他还只是个纽约州的小小卫生督察。

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In effect, each state could be set to represent a single unit of work by an individual on the team.

实际上，每个状态都可以设置代表这个小组中一个成员单一的工作单元。

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Jeff Levi is one of the authors: "In 1991,there wasn't a single state that had an adult obesity rate over 20 percent."

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Decisive and democratic action is needed because attempts to redefine marriage in a single state or city could have serious consequences throughout the country.

CNN: Transcript of Bush statement

But the political task of implementing the Dayton plan for reuniting Muslims, Serbs and Croats in a single state remains largely unachieved (see article).

ECONOMIST: A choice of devils

Some academics in the West went so far as to see in Iran a model of how theocracy and democracy might co-exist in a single state.

ECONOMIST: Elections in Iran