Then Sandy hit New Jersey and New York, states whose public "commitments" could barely be supported on a sunny day.

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And then they'll add a few more states, New York, New Jersey, Texas, later on.

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He taught in a school, hitch-hiked through 45 of the then 48 states and worked as a textbook editor in New York, all of it useful preparation for the kinds of books that were to make his name.

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West Nile virus was first reported in the United States in 1999 in New York, and then gradually spread across the country.

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She will then rely on a few big states like New York and Florida to save her, but California and Illinois will likely go to Obama.

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Since then states as diverse as Texas, New Hampshire, Utah and Nevada have implemented their own versions.

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The law enforcement partnership was initially marketed as voluntary -- until states like New York and Massachusetts tried to opt out, and then suddenly it became mandatory.

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The member states will have received the results of the new study by then and should be in a position to decide a future course.

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The logic of Justice Roberts's opinion suggests that once states adopt new Medicaid, the program immediately becomes the old program for the purposes of the law and then states can't leave.

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