Not for him the equivalent of State Department memos or ponderous pontifications.
Many countries have similar programs so if you are not American, check your State Department equivalent.
She said she witnessed conditions in Malawi that were the equivalent of a "state of emergency".
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The most important division, however, is probably between the middle class created by the actions of the state and its equivalent created by its own efforts in the private sector.
Mr Mitchell's proposed terms of reference for new talks would have both sides accepting the 1967 border as the basis of a final accord, with land swaps enabling Israel to annex the largest settlements closest to the old border, while the Palestinians would add equivalent tracts to their own state.
We were losing an average of 700, 000 jobs each month, equivalent to the population of the state of Vermont.
My favorite of the debunkers is Jack McDonald on his King of War blog, who shows that the area to be reconnoitered is equivalent to the size of the State of South Carolina.
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The worry is that the money will be spent today rather than saved or invested, further bloating a state whose revenue is already equivalent to 36% of GDP, compared to 20% in Mexico.
Last month our economy lost 598, 000 jobs, which is nearly the equivalent of losing every single job in the state of Maine.
Moreover, you should keep in mind that the total enrollments at each of the top ten colleges put together is only about the equivalent to the enrollment of a single flagship state university, like Florida State, Ohio State, or Arizona.
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The State Securities Commission (Vietnam's equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission) says it has no idea how many Vietnamese are trading U.S. stocks.
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That will likely increase prices again, causing Brazilians and industry watchdogs to wonder when an entry level vehicle there will no longer cost the equivalent of a small house in a low income state like Pernambuco.
He has the equivalent of three full-time employees dealing with the state bureaucracy.
Businesses contribute the equivalent of 20% of an employee's salary to the state-mandated pension fund.
Worse yet, we are allowing the functional equivalent of wasting taxpayer dollars since taxpayers funds are allocated to the state universities and most of the NCAA D-1 schools are state supported.
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Meanwhile, several million employees in the private and public sectors are opted out of the state second pension because their final-salary schemes pay an equivalent benefit.
Ms Petersilia estimates that it takes seven years to build a new state prison in California, but only one year to open the equivalent private facility, through leasing, converting or building.
State benefits for foster carers have been increased - in St Petersburg they are equivalent to about half the average salary for the first fostered child.
None of this would work, Greve notes, unless every state legislature passed its version of the MSA, a collective action that created the equivalent of a gross violation of the federal Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
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One trillion dollars spread out flat would require 111 billion square feet: equivalent to about 2.5 million acres, 4 thousand square miles, or pretty much all of the State of Connecticut.
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