But in recent years, they've begun to be seen as models of green virtue.
Republicans hold a majority of governor's mansions and view the states as models of conservative governing.
Chechnya, Tatarstan, the Swedish minority in Finland and German-speakers in Italy have been touted as models.
Not long ago states were rushing to establish themselves as models for health-care coverage.
"Kids aren't afraid of it, " said Bonassar, who used his then-5-year-old twin daughters' healthy ears as models.
It produces phones that use Android as well as models that use its own operating system called Bada.
This formula becomes meaningless as the buildings that served as models inevitably disappear.
These useful little insects have thus become idolised as models of co-operative enterprise.
They will look increasingly to next-door Turkey or distant Singapore as models of development that bring stability and progress.
The largest companies have the best quality programs, so regulators use these companies as models to set the regulatory standards.
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However, he cites venture firms Andreesen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures as models, because they invest opportunistically in a broad range of stages.
Bahia and Ceara, governed for more than a decade by allies of Mr Cardoso, are often held up as models of the new, modern north-east.
Weintraub also uses breast cancer survivors as models on her site.
In this age, incompetence is no barrier to promotion, and failed states like California and Illinois are taken not as examples to avoid but as models to emulate.
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When he ran short of celebrities to act as models, he hit upon a new idea: he turned models into celebrities, creating a new creature called the supermodel.
Moreover, the states that want to apply for funding in that second round can now look to Tennessee and Delaware as models for what the Obama administration smiles upon.
They are two of the court's most conservative members and President Bush, as candidate Bush, mentioned them as models for the kind of justice he would appoint if elected.
Rooms 501 and 502 are kept as they were in 1957 when they were used as models for the studio set in which Scotty creepily gets Judy to change her hair and clothes for him.
She cites changes we have made before as a society to improve our way of life--changes like waste collection and public education-- as models for how we need to change the world again.
Sweden and Iceland are frequently held up as models in this regard, and they do have some of the most extensive paternity and maternity leave and publicly funded child care in the world.
Though Mr. Weiner acknowledges some points of tangency between his parents and the characters of Pete and Trudy Campbell (portrayed by Vincent Kartheiser and Alison Brie), he maintains that he avoids using people or situations from his own life as models for the series.
Maeda also points to RISD graduates who have started companies including AirBnB, a website connecting travelers to room or housing space, and Spirare Surfboards, a company that makes eco-friendly surfboards as models to emulate and is bringing these graduates back to campus to consult with students.
However, that percentage is expected to rise in the current quarter, as more models such as Samsung Electronics Co.
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The shields come in as many shapes and models as cell phones themselves.
One of the I think big topics of discussion that the President and Prime Minister will have tomorrow is the change in the region, the support we can provide to Egypt and Tunisia, for instance, as potential democratic models, as they go through their transitions, and then that will be reaffirmed at the G8.
This will be the tip of the iceberg as more evolved models such as that of Strategic Blue, which allows for trading of future cloud usage across multiple Cloud Service Providers, emerge and create a worldwide market able to factor into the price of cloud highly advanced calculations such as anticipated cloud datacenter build outs and varying demand for cloud.
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The cities offered up as alternative models by the NYPD's critics such as Boston, Chicago and High Point, N.
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This, most believe, is best achieved by using banks' own credit-risk models, much as their internal models are used to allocate capital in trading operations.
As new models are developed they should be deployed and tested quickly to discover their failings.
Larry Page and Google have a lot to offer as role models for utility industry planners.
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