"The foundation for the state of Palestine was launched from Aqaba," said an editorial in the Jordanian newspaper Al Dustour today.
Without that surcharge and other targeted tax increases, Mr. Cuomo's proposed cuts in education and other vital services will inevitably be deeper and more painful than necessary, harming both individuals and the foundation for the state's future economic growth.
He relied on Democrats to seal the deal, providing the foundation for the state's cap-and-trade program, which requires companies to buy permits to release greenhouse gas emissions.
North Carolina's investment in the textile, tobacco and furniture industries provided countless low-skilled workers with the opportunity to earn decent wages and established a strong foundation for the state's middle class.
Some 75 years after the Beveridge Report laid the foundations for the welfare state, including the introduction of the basic state pension, the UK is utterly changed.
The foundation of the state, for all intents and purposes, was established several decades before.
The huge outpouring of philanthropy in the 18th and 19th centuries laid many of the foundations for the welfare state.
But on Monday, when we have caught up on lost sleep, let's start designing the foundations for the new state we need: the Federal Kingdom of Britain.
This is not New York or Berlin, but Herbert Morrison's London of the 1930s - a place where the combination of Conservative national government and innovative local Labour leadership started to lay down the foundations for the welfare state.
