Huge corporations can cope with the myriad rules issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and their state-level counterparts.

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Despite the rapid growth, the economies of Denver and Colorado - largely considered equal because Denver makes up more than 50% of the state's total - here has slowed with the rest of the nation.

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Two-thirds of the 18m pensioners in the state scheme for private-sector workers get a benefit equal to the minimum wage.

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Fusio-io shares are trading sharply higher Tuesday morning after Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty raised her rating on the solid-state drive maker to Overweight from Equal Weight.

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At the local level, the HIDTAs are directed and guided by Executive Boards composed of an equal number of regional Federal and non-Federal (state, local, and tribal) law enforcement leaders.

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If the student goes to an out-of-state or private college or university, an equal amount of money will be distributed.

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McMillan says his lines have been copied by Chinese, Indian and British companies, but nonetheless the company won an order equal to 10% of last year's revenue from Sinopec, the state-owned Chinese oil company.

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His fire-and-brimstone words aren't unfounded: UCLA and State University of New York-Stony Brook researchers found that, all things being equal, unemployed job applicants are viewed as less competent, warm and hireable than employed folks -- whether they were fired, laid off or quit voluntarily.

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And unlike an open social network, where everyone is equal, NationalField runs on a hierarchical social graph: Higher-level staff get a broader view of the state and local work below them.

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