The broader state system of two- and four-year colleges governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents is also part of the agreement announced Thursday.

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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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Those two groups currently hold the two most powerful offices of state under the current constitutional system which reflects a past era, when the Shia were not Lebanon's largest group.

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Two years later, Ironwood state prison installed an identical solar photovoltaic system.

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Russia's banking system is fragmented, with only two giant firms, both state-controlled.

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But the ideas that have leaked into the Japanese press suggest that the government intends to obtain funds mainly by borrowing from the state-run postal savings system, and to use them in two different ways.

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But the state-capitalist system, he argued, ultimately played a role in precipitating two world wars and Nazism.

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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.

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So the surprise is the state's prison system, which has more than doubled its personnel over the past two decades, growing four times faster than the rest of state government to become its second-largest employer, with 17% of the total workforce.

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As evidence, union officials provided a state form filled out by DOE officials that said the evaluation system would be in effect for two years, ending with the 2013-14 school year.

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