There is even something to be said for this four-state, five-city extravaganza.
The only companies that had money back then were the large state-owned enterprises that were able to borrow all they wanted from the four large state-owned banks, or perhaps go public on one of the new stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
They deposit about two-thirds of these savings in China's four big state-owned banks, which lend about two-thirds of these deposits to state-run firms.
The only sources of loans were the four large state-owned banks, and loans available were reserved for the large state-owned companies.
Four private channels exist in Venezuela, all ostensibly neutral, while the government has four state-run channels and the regional news network Telesur.
Thirty-four state governors (George W. Bush was not among them) sent a letter to Congress demanding it reject the commission's report.
Beyond that, Chinese newspapers report that a broad restructuring is in the offing, which would reorganise the industry into four state-controlled giants.
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Property developers fell on mainland exchanged as expectations faded that accommodative measures for selected property loans from China's four big state-owned banks may boost demand.
As a first step, their bad debts are being transferred to four state-approved asset-management companies, although it is not clear what these companies will then do with them.
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
Non-life belongs to four firms, under the state-owned General Insurance Corporation.
Meanwhile, in France, women are toughing it out with free all-day childcare, per-child tax benefits and allowances, four-month paid maternity leaves and a state-paid personal trainer to get back in shape after childbirth.
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And Sandahl says any new development would create more sprawl, which is a four-letter word to state planners.
Two-thirds of students at four-year colleges attend state schools, and a growing number of public colleges offer fine honors programs for top students.
Malcolm Armstead scored 14 points, Fred Van Vleet bounced in a big basket with 1 minute left, and ninth-seeded Wichita State earned its first trip to the Final Four since 1965 with a 70-66 victory over Ohio State on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the state's former treasurer, Paul Silvester, is serving a four-year jail sentence for taking kickbacks and bribes to steer state pension-fund business, a scandal that has touched the waspish, manicured suburbs of Connecticut's southern Fairfield County.
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Wichita State punched its Final Four ticket with a 70-66 upset of Ohio State out West.
Franks, a four-term congressman and former state GOP chairman, has made Corzine's campaign spending the primary issue in the race.
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They have profiled board members of the top 1, 000 Indian firms - private and state-owned - that account for four-fifths of the market capitalisation of companies listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in 2010.
The manifesto proposes a four-year programme for sorting out state pensions and rationalising the budget.
Nationwide today about 1.3 million kids, or 28% of all four-year-olds, attend state-funded pre-K, a leap from 14% in 2002.
In Idaho, there are only four Democrats in the 35-member state Senate.
The Lakers open a four-game road trip at Golden State on Monday.
British nursery school teacher Kate Bainbridge went into a near-vegetative state for four months starting in June 1997 after a virus caused severe brain inflammation.
The four-term senator picked South Carolina -- a key primary battleground state -- for his speech in which he criticized Bush's handling of the economy and his foreign policy.
With ABN Amro still in government hands after it was nationalised in 2009, the nationalisation of SNS Reaal means two of the Netherlands' four systemically important banks are state-owned.
To be fair, the DNC did go through a lengthy review process of the primary calendar and warned every state that only four -- Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina -- would be allowed to hold primaries before Super Tuesday.
Casey Institute's four- year-old Capital Markets Transparency Initiative is the same: State governors, legislators, treasurers, as well as pension fund managers and board members must avoid making in the future the kinds of mistakes that Pennsylvania's State Employees Retirement System (among others) has made in the past.
Mr. Wang also declined to offer specifics on Mr. Buffett's appearance, including whether it would also appear on the Spring Festival television special, a four- to five-hour series of songs and skits produced by the state broadcaster that is watched by 700 million people in China and might be the world's most-viewed TV show.
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