Even in the face of the Obama administration's strongly urban-centric, blue state-oriented economic policy, these generally less than hip places appear poised to grow as the economy recovers.

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In particular, the rise of utility-scale, centralized renewable energy and the associated infrastructure they will require are propagating an ossified, state-oriented system for providing and paying for electric service.

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These expenditures concern to allocation and use of monetary resources of the state for sectoral, goal-oriented and territorial purposes.

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In unglamorous, non-export oriented services Germany is in a much sorrier state.

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Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) in every state to compete as a nonprofit-like entity against health care insurers.

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One classic cultural success is the example of Bankers Trust, where Alfred Brittain and Charlie Sanford formed a team that changed the corporate culture from that of a traditional commercial bank, highly valuing a measured pace of decision making, to that of a more transaction-oriented global merchant bank, emphasizing fast reactions, state-of-the-art communications, and sophisticated controls.

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KfW backs export-oriented firms and small businesses, lending at low rates, and deals with the privatisation of German state-owned enterprises.

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Pro-exchange Republicans, at the state level, believed that if they set up the exchanges themselves, they could do so in a more market-oriented way than the federal government would.

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In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace.

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