He defined the state as the agency which successfully monopolises the legitimate use of force.
By the same token, the optimal amount of monetary stimulus is defined by the state of the economy.
We'll look at state pensions, defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, personal pensions and self-invested personal pensions.
The proposition, which added an amendment to the state constitution, defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
Obviously, when the enemy was a state actor with clearly defined borders, overwhelming firepower made sense.
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Most proposals for creating a defined-contribution alternative to a state pension plan or Social Security use an IRA or 401(k) model.
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Earlier this month a bill placing all new state employees in a defined contribution plan passed a subcommittee of the Florida House of Representatives.
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In addition, higher contributions for Medicare and Social Security are expected while 401(k)s and other self-funded retirement plans continue to replace employer-funded defined benefit plans, particularly for state and local government workers.
Silicon Valley stands as a prime example that this century will not be defined by the classic notion of the nation state, but rather by the regionalization of cities as the hubs of economic development.
No human being, no church, no state can redefine what God has already defined.
Their children must slog on towards an infinitely receding retirement age, squirrelling away money for their meagre defined-contribution pensions as a growing proportion of state spending is devoted to the needs of a massive generation of the elderly.
Store-based health clinics must have a well-defined and limited scope of clinical services, consistent with state scope of practice laws.
The defined-benefits revolution that has swept through the private sector has hardly touched the public one: 90% of American state- and local-government workers have defined-benefit plans, compared with 20% of private-sector workers.
Thus, the proposed Jewish state would have been much smaller than the Israel defined by the armistice lines negotiated at the end of the 1948-49 war.
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The IFS estimates that employer-sponsored pensions are twice as common, and also more generous, among state employees than in the private sector, where defined-benefit schemes of the kind the government wants to curtail are becoming increasingly rare.
This shift is nearly complete in the private sector: As of March 2009, 84% of state and local government employees had access to a defined benefit plan, compared to just 21% of private employees (and 16% of nonunion private employees).
If prior contributions to defined-benefit pension plans earn a lower investment return than the state and federal regulators governing these plans had assumed they would, taxpayers must make up the difference.
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So it is a little surprising that as soon as March of 2011, and again last week, he is actively discouraging other states from looking at a defined contribution approach for small businesses as a conservative option to solving state insurance market issues.
Clearly, there is a wide spread in these GAO numbers as the determination is dependent upon how a pre-existing condition is defined something that varies from insurance company to insurance company and state to state.
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Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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In the long run, defined-contribution plans that most corporations have embraced will also be adopted by local and state governments.
In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier effort by Hawaii to create a state-sanctioned, race-based entity composed solely of Native Hawaiians (defined in a manner similar to S.147).
So what could be called a marriage was defined by religious organisations, which might answer the question in different ways, while the state didn't attempt to intervene in the definition of marriage.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has performed many roles for the American people in the three decades that have defined her public life: first lady, scorned woman, senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state all among them.
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The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) sets forth what is generally accepted as the legal criteria for the establishment of a nation-state: (1) A permanent population, (2) a defined territory, (3) a government, and (4) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
New York courts have said the state constitution guarantees children the opportunity for a "sound basic education, " which courts have defined as a "meaningful high school education" that will prepare them to be competitive in a global economy and productive citizens at home.
As the standards movement gained strength in the early 1990s, however, educational and political leaders at the state, district, and even school levels began to show greater interest in how other countries defined academic quality and how U.S. students fared in relation to their peers in other nations.
Any state in a border dispute with another can petition directly to the high court under judicial powers defined in Article III of the Constitution, according to Joseph Zimmerman, a political-science professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and the author of several books on interstate disputes.
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State and local governments that are currently outside of Social Security are giving serious consideration to shifting to a defined-contribution plan, as Utah has recently done.
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