• By routing his competitors Saturday in South Carolina, Obama pulled even in the early-state race with Clinton -- they each have won two states -- and claimed his first victory since the Iowa caucuses earlier this month.

    CNN: Obama hails win as candidates prep for Super Tuesday

  • Similarly, Lynas Corporation of Western Australia has seen its shares rise eight-fold since early 2009, shortly before a state-owned Chinese company attempted to make an investment that was itself blocked by the Australian government.

    ECONOMIST: Rare earths

  • Mitt Romney based on fund raising and early state organization - have both broken through, so there's no frontrunner now.

    NPR: McCain Set to Make White House Run Official

  • Maryland officials extended the state's early-voting period an extra day, to Friday, after it was canceled Monday and Tuesday due to the storm, said Ross Goldstein, deputy administrator for the Maryland State Board of Elections.

    WSJ: Sandy Prompts Shifts in Voting Procedures

  • In each of the last four economic recessions in the United States, that is in the mid-1970s, in the early 1980s, in the early 1990s and most recently in 2000-2001, state higher education spending per student declined markedly.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning

  • In early September, Trinidad's state-owned sugar company made all of its 9, 200 employees redundant.

    ECONOMIST: Sickly, but it could revive

  • In early 2008 South Africa's state-run utility, Eskom, announced that it could not produce enough electricity to satisfy demand.

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  • Under fire from his Shia allies and under pressure to reconcile with Iraq's Sunni community, he split from the UIA in early 2009 and formed the broader-based State of Law coalition.

    BBC: Profile: Nouri Maliki

  • Starting October 27th, you can vote early at any convenient location across the state -- your library, your city hall.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

  • Hardly done with push-button ease, state-of-the-art licensing is more reminiscent of the early days of space docking.

    FORBES: Docking: New-Age Brand Licensing

  • "Stem-cell research is in a very early state and while it may hold great promise we should not overstate the state of science, or politicise these issues, " he wrote in a recent edition of Nature magazine.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | Q&A: The politics of stem cells

  • This was negotiated in the early 1990s between the government and unions from mostly state-owned industrial conglomerates.

    ECONOMIST: Economic and social reforms remain incomplete

  • The new system will be funded in part by the early abolition of the state second pension, an earnings-related scheme.

    ECONOMIST: A new state pension

  • In 2007, India put into place an early warning system that officials say is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and connected with international networks.

    CNN: Asian tsunami warning system: A last-mile challenge

  • In Multnomah County, Oregon, which begins voting on October 8, Eric Sample, spokesman for the county elections division, says that early voting and the state's 100% vote-by-mail has increased voter participation.

    CNN: In voting, the early bird skips the line

  • Comprehensive early childhood programs like the Early Head Start and Head Start programs and state pre-kindergarten programs with high quality standards lead to better cognitive growth, improved behavior, better health and greater school success.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "It's the 800-pound gorilla, and we're not doing what we should be, " said Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a descendent of Cuban refugees who has played an influential role in redrawing the state's congressional maps since the early-1990s.

    WSJ: Latino Population Surge Poses Challenge to GOP

  • With his home-state crowd behind him, Faber took early control on the ground and then finished Menjivar by clinging to his back and wrapping both legs around his standing opponent, forcing Menjivar to tap out while on his feet with 26 seconds left in the opening round.

    NPR: Ronda Rousey Wins Historic Women's UFC Debut

  • In 2011, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), 39 states had state-funded pre-school initiatives (not including Head Start, the federal programme for poor children).

    ECONOMIST: Despite budget cuts, reformers are pushing ahead

  • Depending on state law, early voting can either be done in-person, through the mail or through an absentee ballot.

    CNN: In voting, the early bird skips the line

  • The day begins early for DeAnna, a 28-year-old native of Washington state.

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  • So whereas Tony Blair comfortably survived early left-wing revolts, over a miserly increase to the basic state pension and cuts to single parents' benefit, the 10p guerrillas rapidly extracted their concessions.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Broadman recalls working with the Chinese leadership on restructuring state-owned enterprises and corporate governance reform in the early 1990s while he was at the World Bank.

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  • That state rescheduled its primary for Jan. 15, before traditional early-goers Iowa and New Hampshire, drawing the ire of the party's national leadership.

    NPR: Political Junkie: Fred Thompson's Debut

  • His surprising victory in the state in the January caucuses gave early validation to his candidacy against better-known rivals Clinton and former North Carolina Sen.

    NPR: Obama Takes Oregon; Clinton Wins Kentucky

  • Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1980, Scott showed early promise as a golfer growing up in Australia's tropical state of Queensland -- a favored golfing destination in Australia.

    CNN: Scott ends years of pain for Australian golf at Masters

  • Cleanthony Early and Ron Baker scored 16 points apiece and Wichita State hit five straight 3-pointers late to knock the top-ranked and No. 1 seeded Bulldogs out of the NCAA tournament 76-70 on Saturday.

    NPR: Wichita St.'s 3-Pointers Boot No. 1 Gonzaga 76-70

  • Republican state legislators have also been devising new rules that, according to critics, are intended to suppress Democratic turnout in the state, such as limiting early voting and requiring voters to display government-issued photo I.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • The creation of the Chinese stock market in the early 1990s, however, served a different purpose: to recapitalize and restructure large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that otherwise would have gone under.

    FORBES: Chinese Stock Market -- Buy In or Buyer Beware?

  • He thinks states with smaller economies like Mississippi and West Virginia should not be investing more heavily in K-12 education because when kids get a good early education they tend to leave the state and the state economy does not benefit.

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