So can this single-state franchise go national?
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The value of euro banknotes in circulation and the market for euro-denominated securities already rival the dollar, a long-established currency backed by a single nation-state.
On Wednesday, the Work and Pensions Committee (at 9.30am) has its first evidence session on the draft to create a single-tier state pension.
Introducing a White Paper on a single-tier state pension, he said the first such review would take place under the next government, in 2017.
The idea of partition is intolerable to the UN administration in Kosovo, committed to a single multi-ethnic state.
The NDP, for instance, has its roots in Nasser's single-party socialist state, but its current leaders are business moguls, lawyers and local strongmen.
Gadhafi, who has been considering withdrawing Libya from the Arab League, was particularly incensed by the League's refusal to take up his proposal for a single Palestinian-Israeli state.
But then, put a measure on the ballot voting for single-payer in your state, not a measure to destroy the only other possibility of making the system work.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened to veto the bill, as he had done twice before, but Democrats pulled it last December believing that the incoming governor, Jerry Brown, would be much more sympathetic to a state single-payer bill.
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We said that four years ago when John Kerry picked John Edwards, and we said, what a great, inspired choice and yet, John Edwards didn't carry a single - and help the ticket carry a single southern state including his home state of North Carolina.
Hawaii is another state with single-payer that was exempted from the ACA from the get-go.
Chugach provides every single passenger with a state-of-the-art Mammut avalanche airbag pack, the first US heli operator I know of to do so, at no extra cost.
Since then, aside from one Austrian bodybuilder, the Republican Party has not elected a single individual to any state-wide office or held a majority in either house of the legislature.
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"Today's agreement preserves a single state in Bosnia- Herzegovina and there will be a single international personality with one seat in the United Nations, " said (135K aiff) Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
The winner -- a single ticket holder -- has chosen to remain anonymous, state lottery director Dennis Wilson said.
The new governor of Vermont, Peter Schumlin, a Democrat and former president of the Vermont Senate, is also pushing for a state-based single-payer system.
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Some academics in the West went so far as to see in Iran a model of how theocracy and democracy might co-exist in a single state.
Considering that, a few years ago, it was rare to get the computer time needed to do even a single geoengineering simulation with a state-of-the-art climate model, this investment of time and effort marks a big step forward.
Single-payer takes a different approach to cost-savings, using the leverage of a single insurer (the state) to keep prices down.
The C919 is China's answer to the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 -- a single-aisle, 168-seat, narrow-body commercial liner produced by Chinese state-run aircraft manufacturer Comac (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China).
As the Recovery Act funds that saw through many states over the last two years are phasing out -- and it is undeniable that the Recovery Act helped every single state represented in this room manage your budgets, whether you admit it or not -- you face some very tough choices at this point on everything from schools to prisons to pensions.
In one of its current spots a haggard-looking single mom argues with a deadbeat dad who's moving out-of-state.
He composed music, wrote passable poetry (always in French), bought Old Masters on the European art market, collected porcelain, patronised architects (who frequently worked from the king's own drawings) and more or less single-handedly conducted the affairs of the Prussian state.
The single market and the EU's competition and state-aid rules are under attack as national governments look for ways to protect jobs.
Yet the Dayton agreement's plan for rebuilding a single Bosnian state, involving autonomy for both a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb republic, has come to little.
Under the agreement Bosnia would be preserved as a single state but still divided into two separate republics -- the Bosnia-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serb Republic.
There were to be no private roads, and the government would ensure that road-building in every state was done to a single standard.
Also, in its favor, the legislation has the support of business organizations that include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, since it would establish a single national standard for E-Verify, rather than a patchwork of state requirements.
Davis specifically rejected the employer mandate along conventional constitutional grounds, finding that even employers who operate within a single state can be subjected to federal regulations, much as civil-rights laws apply even to local diners and motels.
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By now, only 100-plus days in, people are at work in every single state in the nation who would not have been at work but for this act, and providing product that is worthwhile in and of itself.
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