Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla changed their status with Britain from colony to associated state.
It was all very different from the shabby image associated with state hospitals.
Similarly, the problem that confronts the Chinese SOEs is the politicization associated with the state and the provinces as the dominant owners, and the inefficiencies resulting from over-bureaucratization.
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Like other Saudi-backed Islamist organizations, Hamas has long used educational, religious, medical and other social-support services to ingratiate itself with local populations and to proselytize a virulent brand of radical Islam most closely associated with the state religion of Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism.
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Williamson sits along the Tug Fork River in a part of the state long associated with violence.
The job losses associated with those added state taxes will offset at least some of the job gains coming from the infusion of new federal dollars into a state.
October 10th marked the 60th anniversary of the Korean Workers' Party, an event celebrated by the massive military parades and the synchronized demonstrations so often associated with the Stalinist state of North Korea.
While the security implications of this sale can only be surmised at this point, providing a state long associated with international terrorism and external aggression with such capabilities will surely prove inimical to Western interests.
In the process they will not wish to and should not jettison the benefits associated with their long-term owners, but they will require new long-term investors who do not create the same conflicts that are associated with their existing state, bank and family masters.
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"The government will not allow publication of such objectionable material, " the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan quoted him as saying.
It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.
Indeed, the bottom line for Moscow appears to be the goal of making its military-industrial complex more efficient, achieving higher productivity even as the costs associated with the manufacture of state-of-the-art military hardware are reduced.
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The president -- who survived two assassination attempts in December 2003 -- denounced Friday's attack, speaking out against what he said was a small number of Muslim extremists who would carry out such an act, according to a report from the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.
The concept of capping Medicaid spending per person instead of per state is mostly associated with Republicans Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is pushing the approach in a bill called the Medicaid Accountability and Care Act but former President Bill Clinton also entertained the idea in 1997.
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However, local residents who spoke to an Associated Press journalist who accompanied the state officials said soldiers purposefully set the fires during the attack.
Failure to account for job losses associated with taxes required to cover state matching funds for the expansion means that job gains are overstated by another 14 percent.
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These grants help cover eligible costs, on a 75 percent cost share basis, and can reimburse state and local costs associated with personnel and equipment used to combat fires.
Mr Pascoal's gang has been tied to a group in the north-eastern state of Alagoas allegedly associated with Augusto Farias, a congressman whose murdered brother ran the influence-peddling ring that led to the impeachment of Fernando Collor as Brazil's president in 1993.
If the new pension regime has an Achilles heel, it is the state-owned institutions still associated with it.
At least in rhetoric, the Tories stood for rolling back the state, while Labour was associated with nationalisation and trade union rule.
During her four-year tenure, Mrs Clinton visited 112 countries - more than any previous secretary of state, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Corruption is a problem throughout virtually the entirety of post-Communist Europe due, in large part, to unavoidable problems associated with the rapid privatization of previously state-owned assets.
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The group and nearly 200 entertainers connected with it aren't currently registered lobbyists, a search by The Associated Press of the database of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics shows.
Perry rightly argues that giving the children of illegal immigrants access to Texas higher education is not only the right thing to do, but the cheapest way for the state to tackle the problems associated with this demographic.
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But the group and nearly 200 entertainers who are gaining attention and support in the dispute, which is splitting New Yorkers, aren't registered lobbyists, according to a search by The Associated Press of the database of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Even those usually associated in the public mind with the nanny state are dismayed at the heavy-handed approach.
The towns of Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province were among those that suffered casualties, Khalil Saei, local crisis committee chief, told state TV, according to the Associated Press.
Interestingly, the Associated Press reported on 6 April 1994 that State Department spokesman Michael McCurry recently acknowledged that Iraq has offered a bounty for anyone who murders U.N. and other international relief workers.
"It's a day of reckoning and justice, " Clarita Vargas, who said she and two sisters were abused by a priest at a Jesuit-run school for Native American children in the state of Washington, told the Associated Press.
Prosecutors also criticized comments to The Associated Press by Doug Wilson, who heads the state public defenders' office.
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