House Bill 1086 passed overwhelmingly in the House by a 185-15 vote and would have required the Public School Employees' Retirement System and State Employees' Retirement System to divest from companies doing business in Iran and Sudan.
The State of California, Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the California State Highway System, as well as that portion of the Interstate Highway System within the state's boundaries.
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The system covers state workers from janitors to the governor, although teachers have a separate retirement system.
Despite the overhaul of the federal system, state premiers still have substantial veto power.
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Investors in the so-called public-private partnership include Russian Railways, national power utility Unified Energy System and state-controlled pipeline operator Transneft.
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He said that independent schools often had the knowledge and connections to "play the system while state school students lose out".
That system of state capitalism worked when the aim was to copy and adapt other people's ideas in the cheapest way possible.
But Germany has a generous system of state finance of political parties.
Under that system, state-sponsored industry cartels programmed every aspect of economic life, from wages and working conditions to prices, production levels and product specifications.
Mr Watts even makes the slightly macabre suggestion that blacks should favour private individual retirement accounts, rather than the current system of state-guaranteed Social Security.
Unlike many other states, advocates say, Massachusetts' governance system designates state education officials as sole authorizers of independently run charter schools, overruling local mayors and unions.
To some, this highlights the strength of America's system of state (rather than federal) incorporation, in which states compete to attract companies to set up under their laws.
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The report looks at elements of the system of state support which have the effect of cutting a family income in real terms, as a second earner works more.
This patient would normally be under the purview of the state health system, and the state health lab is not operational in New Orleans because of the hurricane damage.
Funding for the state university system, including Penn State?
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The head of space agency Roscosmos said that an investigation into the short-lived spacecraft had discovered that radiation caused a glitch in the onboard computer system, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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Mr. Schwartz of ORG says he has put clients such as the Texas Municipal Retirement System and state funds in Maine, Indiana and Kentucky in opportunity funds in part because these funds responded to investor complaints that went beyond poor performance.
It is now possible to order a pickup truck with heated and ventilated leather seats, a hi-fi sound system and state of the art navigation, for a level of factory-delivered luxury that pickup owners could only find in the aftermarket just years ago.
Mr Milosevic cannot bring himself even to implement an agreement he signed with Mr Rugova a year ago which would have brought Kosovo's underground education system back, uncurbed, into the state system.
Every state in the nation held preliminary contests to pick the best water from a rural water system in their state.
The charges Boies referred to, according to Spitzer's office, were complaints that Greenberg and AIG had shortchanged the New York State Workers' Compensation system and had misled the state insurance department on matters of reserve reporting.
More dangerously, the governor has been reduced to raiding the state pension system in her attempts to bridge the deficit in the state budget.
And his manifesto includes proposals to simplify the tax system and reform state pensions.
What Sweden also has, running in parallel with the state system, is a private school system.
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The government may suspend plans to allow private health insurers into the state system.
But no other state system is offering competency-based bachelor's degrees on a systemwide basis.
Now the barriers between public and private sectors are eroding, allowing entrepreneurs into the state system.
Yet most men in the state system still sign on each day, even if they sit about.
Under the Electoral College system, each state is worth a certain number of electoral votes based on population.
The College undergirds the two-party system with its state-by-state, winner-take-all approach, which, in turn, helps preserve national unity.
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