Unlike the various municipal, county, and state police forces common in the United States, Puerto Rico has a single, centralized police force, which includes a body of detectives.
Middlesex arguably never, and certainly not since 1789, had a single, established county town.
For example, Mr. Gormley boasts of voting to cut state taxes 37 times since 1990, Mr. Franks of helping to write the first balanced federal budget in decades, and Mr. Treffinger of having never supported a single county tax increase despite inheriting a $100 million budget deficit.
"Seven thousand people have died in Beichuan, a single county, and we think Wenchuan will be similar, too, because it was the epicenter," said Kang Zhilin, a spokesman for the hospital.
In Minnesota, a state that Mr. Romney carried easily in 2008, he has so far failed to win a single county — and got just 17 percent of the vote.
Suggestions for a single county force have been echoed by at least one county MP, who thinks that Cornwall could benefit.
In the case of the broadband network, not a single county or municipality has signed a formal contract to use the system.
This study has limitations, firstly patients were recruited from a single county in the United Kingdom.
Between dwindling wages and increasing costs, the pay of a typical American is lower today than in the 1960s and 70s, and not a single county in the U.S. has a minimum wage that matches the local cost of living.
