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.
Instead, what we are seeing is a new system called state capitalism.
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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It must be evident to you from this discussion that the objective of Islamic 'Jihad' is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of State rule.
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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.
Replacing Jackson-Vanik, a law that is meant to penalize a country (the Soviet Union) and an economic system (state socialism) that no longer exist for a practice (limiting the right of Jews to emigrate) that also no longer exists, ought to be a complete no-brainer.
What should raise red flags is that none of the findings in the House report have anything to do with specific cyber threats or cyber security, but merely reinforce what we already know about China: that its economy operates under a system of state-sponsored capitalism and that intellectual property theft is a larger problem there than it is in the United States.
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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.
But aside from the three small cable outfits that you mentioned - two in Ohio, one in Vermont - and, of course, the Pentagon system and the State Department's close circuit system, both of which carry us.
But in exchange for the security of a largely state-funded system they have a state-run monopoly that is unresponsive to patient needs and slow to innovate.
Every state in the nation held preliminary contests to pick the best water from a rural water system in their state.
And supporters of the old grammar-school system argue that the new scheme is likely to fail both to draw middle-class parents back into the state system which is apparently one of its aims and to deliver all the intended benefits to poorer children.
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.
Given the past, aggressive hostility of big pension fund systems like the California Public Employee System (CalPERS) and Illinois State Teachers Retirement System (ISTRS) to the idea that their funds could be used as leverage to help defeat our terrorist foes, the question occurs: Is their new coalition's apparent "conversion" the welcome development it would appear to be?
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Far from being "a heavily subsidised state maintenance system" I find my earnings are subsidising the state.
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