Secretary of State John Kerry -- a former Massachusetts senator with deep ties to Boston -- found out about the blasts when he was on his way to Chicago on his way home from a 10-day foreign trip, and called his daughter Vanessa, who has run the Boston Marathon in the past, a senior State Department official said.
The latest turn puts this high-profile transaction, in a limbo for the past seven months, once again into a state of uncertainty.
The things that define for the Chinese who they are and what China is are a product not of the past 100 years of calling itself a nation-state but 2, 000 years of being a civilisation-state.
After moving outside to surge past pacesetter Super Ninety Nine on the final turn, the brown colt held off Flashback for a one-length victory that came just hours before Louisville rallied past Wichita State 72-68 in a national semifinal in Atlanta.
Asked about the locations inside the U.S. of some 24 Palestinians who have already arrived from Iraq over the past two years, a State Department spokesman declined to say.
That it might not be in the best interest of a man with his own past legal troubles to give testimony undermining a high-profile state prosecution did not, apparently, deter him.
Germany has seen the winds of change in a number of state elections over the past two years.
This is no small feat in a state where three of the past seven governors have gone to jail.
Connecticut, which doesn't require manicurists to get licenses, has averaged just six complaints a year to the state over the past five years.
The Georgian, Grade II-listed Lady Gillford's House has been transformed from a state of dereliction over the past nine years to become the focal point of the archive.
His Justice and Development Party, or AKP, also made a number of overtures toward the Kurds, relaxing bans on Kurdish language education, appearing to apologize for past discriminatory policies and launching a state Kurdish-language TV station.
In the past, France has seen a series of state-led bailouts, at vast expense to tax payers.
In Washington state this past week, a bridge collapsed when a truck driver's load bumped against the steel framework.
State- and local-government spending fell the past three months--a large part of the stimulus also goes directly to shoring up state governments and staunching that flow.
During the past two years the state has experienced a net population loss to other states of 50, 000 people.
The company had done work in the past for the State Department and developed a cell phone game called X-life.
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Development picked up in the past decade, fueled by a move away from state control and by billions in tourist dollars, but analysts say its gains have been unevenly distributed.
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The two Ultrabooks booted up and rebooted much faster than most Windows laptops I've tested in the past, reaching a ready-to-use state, with Wi-Fi fully connected, in about 30 seconds when booting from scratch and under a minute on a reboot.
In the past, the state Republican party has been a powerful machine for supporting establishment candidates.
For the past 20 years, the state has set a cap on the number of students that each university can accept.
Freeh's group has been poring over internal Penn State e-mails and has interviewed a past university official about the way Paterno influenced a variety of disciplinary matters, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
He later told the AFP news agency that he was speaking of the state finances in the past and it was a joke.
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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Sonny sneaks past the gathering state troopers (who, in a nice touch, are sadly wondering which of the crash victims owns a small dog that's sniffing around the scene) and approaches one of the smashed autos.
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But New Hampshire is a far cry from the reliable Republican state it was in the past.
The state's Employment Development office estimates that nearly a half-million state residents have lost their jobs in the past year.
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Indeed this week it was revealed that Bosnia's state institutions were over budget by a quarter in the past six months.
Three convicted murderers inhabit Colorado's death row, a state that has carried out a single execution in the past 45 years.
The Jayhawks won close games to get to the Final Four, beating Purdue and North Carolina State by three points apiece, then pushing past a hobbled North Carolina team.
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Obama has outspent McCain by a 2-to-1 margin in the state during the past two weeks, according to an estimate by TNSMI-Campaign Media Analysis Group, CNN's consultant on political advertising.
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