Another odd feature typical of the French far left is that most of the staff - cartoonists and writers alike - go by single-name noms de plume.
There are also many niche scholarships offered to minorities, women, children of single parents--you name it.
Hence reports in January 2011 of Goldman Sachs cramming investors together into a single extra-large overcoat to resemble a single name on the docket, although Facebook declared at around the same time that it expected to pass 500 investors in 2011, and thus would report within 120 days of the end of its financial year.
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There are currently 10 million people without a single GCSE to their name - they can't even apply for most of the jobs on offer.
Only one out of five adults is able to name a single vaccine-treatable disease other than the flu, a recent survey found.
Research we have done... shows that 84% of the British public couldn't name a single British Paralympian - despite the fact Great Britain came second in the medals table at the Beijing Olympics.
It sells single-family homes under the Richmond American Home name to first-time and move-up home buyers.
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Ja Rule had chart success with singles like Always On Time and Ain't It Funny, after making his name guest-starring on a single with Jay-Z.
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Whether accused of doling out seats in the House of Lords in exchange for donations to the Labour Party, or taking the country to war based on questionable intelligence, Blair emerged unscathed--with not a single electoral defeat to his name.
Trouble is, when this document materializes, it carries only the single name "McLovin, " officially a 25-year-old organ donor from the Aloha State.
The currently recommended treatment for newly diagnosed patients is a single pill (Atripla) taken dailythat combines three brand-name antiretrovirals - tenofovir (Viread), emtricitabine (Emtriva) and efavirenz (Sustiva).
When the single of the same name was released it was accompanied by a 14-minute mini movie that redefined the concept of music videos.
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As a freelance writer and musician, I generally have more leisure on my hands than do my time-card-punching contemporaries, and have thus heard my name called as a "single" more times than I'd care to admit.
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Nina, a single parent whose name has been changed to protect her identity, said she discovered her eight-year-old daughter was being abused by her neighbour and friend in one of Bradford's inner city areas.
Twenty-seven years after launching her own business, she's a byword for single-minded dedication, still creating looks that embrace the androgynous modernity with which she first made her name.
Breslin -- who's waiting to sign a lease on an office -- refuses to exploit the single advantage that could grab attention and a lot more business: her family name.
So if he is willing to bet millions on OneID, a start-up that promises to replace your user name and password for all your accounts with a single digital identity, OneID may be on to something big.
And it tells this story: during the Eastleigh by-election, the Conservative party held three focus groups in which they asked voters to name a single spending cut they could remember that had affected them.
Juiceboxxx is doing his best to make sure the label lives up to its name: Just this month Thunder Zone dropped its first release, a seven-inch single from critically-acclaimed Alabama hip-hop duo G-Side.
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Ferrand, whom they bought out, was located in Grande Champagne, the most prestigious of the six cognac districts. (Champagne refers to chalky soil, also found where the sparkling wine of the same name is made.) That lucky happenstance gave Andreu and Gabriel the idea of creating a single-district cognac, similar to the single-malt Scotch brands like Macallan and Laphroaig that revitalized the Scotch business in the 1980s.
The commission says the new domain name should be particularly useful for companies which operate across the European single market, giving them a pan-European identity on the internet.
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