He previously served as chancellor of the State University of New York and superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
In the 1980s, average income per job exceeded those of New York state and the U.S., according to data compiled by the Center for Governmental Research.
But even after they married in 2007 in Toronto, some 40 years into their courtship, the two women were not "like most couples" in the eyes of the state of New York, where they lived, nor in the eyes of the U.S. government, which under the Defense of Marriage Act mandates that a spouse, as legally defined, must be a person of the opposite sex.
In November, less than three weeks before the Newtown shootings, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a state law that requires those who want to carry handguns to show a special need for self-protection.
But another Democrat could throw a wrench in that plan Hillary Clinton, the former first lady who served as a U.S. senator representing New York and most recently as secretary of state.
She is a nationally recognized appellate litigator who has practiced extensively before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the appellate courts of the state of New York.
Joseph Kelly, a law professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo who studies online gambling, said that criminal charges in the U.S. had already done much damage to its image.
The upbeat news from abroad helped lift U.S. stocks as investors shook off the Empire State Index, a gauge of manufacturing in New York that came in at negative 7.7, indicating worsening conditions and a shakier outlook.
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Mr. Thein Sein visited New York last September and met with then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the U.N.
The recent decline in Broome County followed improving economic conditions in New York City and other parts of the U.S., said Christian Harris, an economist with the New York state Labor Department.
Nearly every state in the U.S. is adopting some form of the standards, known as the Common Core State Standards, but New York is one of the first states testing students on the changed content.
Al-Marayati drew widespread criticism from Jewish leaders and others when he said that the U.S. "should put the state of Israel on the suspect list, " according to the New York Times.
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The Center for Security Policy today welcomed the insightful -- albeit astonishingly belated -- assessment of the state of U.S.-Soviet cooperation on the Persian Gulf crisis published on the front page of yesterday's New York Times by reporter Thomas L. Friedman.
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