In Rhode Island and Colorado, the law passed both houses of the state legislature and in 10 other states it has passed one house.

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States such as New Jersey, Rhode Island and Colorado, where pension funds are deep in the red, have gone so far as to suspend cost-of-living adjustments altogether for the next 27 years in New Jersey.

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Amazon taxes are imposed in states such as New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, North Carolina, and Colorado.

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They have won their party's nomination in Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland and Rhode Island.

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By 1999, the practice had grown to the point that Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Virginia kept between five and eight per cent of their prison population in isolation, and, by 2003, New York had joined them as well.

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The crew rebuffs a missile strike to the island by launching one of many nuclear missiles from the Colorado, in a twist that shows Chaplin is serious about finding out why his own country would set up its own military, and prove their innocence so they can go home.

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The crew of the Colorado, after some internal scuffles for command, decides to take control of the island of Sainte Marina, where there is a NATO radar installation.

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They also could issue a broader ruling that would apply to California and eight other states: Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.

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Attending the meeting were delegates from Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Michigan and Wyoming.

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Indeed, America is conducting a national experiment regarding capitalism versus socialism between these 25 Republican controlled states, and the 15 states with Democrat Governors and Democrat controlled state legislatures: California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Vermont.

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