In particular, there is a tendency to confuse the state of the car industry with the level of foreign investment, and the level of foreign investment with the state of the British economy as a whole.
"If the administration or obligation to collect sales taxes is raised to the state level with common rules throughout a state, then you're suddenly down to just 50 rules that a business has to follow, " Locke said, noting that Mountain View, a city that is home to technology titans Netscape Communications Corp.
Mr. BARRY ERWIN (President, Council for a Better Louisiana): I think we've gotten away from a lot of that actual corruption at the top level, at the state level with the governor and that type of thing.
Hawaii, for example, is the only state with one unified school district operated at the state level. (Not surprisingly, the schools get poor marks.) Only Michigan and New York have a higher proportion of unionised workers.
Many businesses, fearing that they will end up having to deal with a patchwork of state-level measures, now want federal controls.
As the heart of America's petrochemical and oil-refining industries, Texas puts more chemicals into the air than any other state, and by most rankings is the state with the worst toxin level in the atmosphere.
The Swedish state currently has a 21.4 percent stake in SAS. To continue with the same level of ownership, the state would need to invest SK 1.28 billion.
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"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels, " she exclaimed.
Hamburg, where the party is forming its first state-level coalition with the Greens, will seek to make referendums binding on the legislature.
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When Diplo returned to Philly for a gig in early January 2012, he took the stage at Union Transfer a new, bi-level venue with a state-of-the-art sound system and standing-room-only capacity for 1, 200.
And I know of no group of people who more consistently steer in that direction than governors, because ultimately the buck stops with you in your state, just as the buck stops with me at the national level.
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With Washington boiling over about federal tax rates, folks tend to forget how fraught the fights are over state-level budgets and how to fill the holes with higher income and property taxes.
This year, 59% of charter schools in the state were Level One, compared with 31% of non-charter schools.
Collaborative efforts at the state and local level, along with partnerships with private and non-profit groups, have reduced homelessness in places like Chicago by as much as 12%.
State-level initiatives deal mainly with education and culture (a referendum in Schleswig-Holstein rejected German spelling reform) or the mechanics of democracy (Bavaria voted to abolish its Senate in 1998).
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With low taxes and low regulation at the state level, Austin--no doubt to many locals' consternation--is a great environment not only for public sector employment but also private sector growth.
These cases also cover the gamut of federal agencies and departments, along with a few examples on the state and local level, showing that no segment of our government holds a monopoly on failure on this issue.
After 40 years service you could end up with a pension equating to as much as two thirds of your earnings which together with your state pension should give you a good level of income for the rest of your life.
"We try to proactively engage with policy makers at the local level, the state level and the federal level, " Conway said.
Better coordination between local groups on a state-wide level, more engagement with local and regional media and a return to a focus on fiscal issues will help drive better perceptions and greater electoral impact over time.
Because districts receive funds from so many disparate sources at the state, local, and federal level with various strings attached and all have different local political considerations at hand, in practice it is quite hard to predict demand.
Finalized terms will be put in place by Jan. 2, 2011, in accordance with an implementing "Tailoring Rule" to guide state-level permitting authorities.
To this point most legislators, policymakers and health care experts have discussed the state-based and federal insurance exchange options at length, with more than 30 states opting out of the state-level exchanges.
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With 50 separate state governments and court hierarchies beneath the federal level, the American legal system is more complex than that of any other nation, and the country has, by far, more lawyers than any other.
It is in schools, public housing and doctors' surgeries that natives come face to face with migrants and it is often at the local and state level, where responsibility for such services usually lies, that hostility to migrants seems strongest.
But experience at the state level is showing that tougher regulations in combination with newer technologies are producing positive results.
At the state level, California had the most mass layoffs with 115, 014 workers let go, followed by Michigan with 46, 817, Illinois with 41, 887 and Texas with a more modest 33, 005.
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We have been in constant contact with Europe over the last -- European leaders over the last two years, and we have consulted with them both at the head of government and head of state level.
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What we need to do is make sure that everybody is pulling together, Democrats and Republicans and independents, folks at the federal level and the state levels, private sector with the public sector, to make sure that America retains it competitiveness, retains its leadership in the world.
State-level GDP figures suggest a performance in line with India's average in recent decades.
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