Thus, regional or single-issue candidates have no hope of achieving victory.

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Then he'd be stuck in charge of a regional utility with single-digit earnings growth.

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Many argue that, within Britain, people readily accept a single interest-rate, despite marked regional differences.

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They include not just the launch of the single currency but also the agriculture and regional-aid reforms put forward in Agenda 2000.

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Regional music programmes on Radio 1 will be replaced with a single programme "that offers a UK-wide platform for undiscovered, unsigned" bands.

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Grid architectures are designed to work around single-point failures, but in the 1989 event there were 15 major failures in a few seconds across the regional grid, and that was more than the system could cope with.

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The consultation, to get under way next month, will outline three options for fire and police services - eight services with enhanced collaboration between them, a regional structure with fewer boards, or a single service for fire and a single force for police.

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