"We Southeast Asians are caught between a fluid region and a hard state, " he says.
If we work hard with state and local governments and businesses large and small, the "Y2K problem" can be remembered as the last headache of the 20th century, not the first crisis of the 21st.
The State of California, for example, has worked hard to reform its state budget with major expenditure cuts, smaller debt offerings and a voter-approved tax increase.
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Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.
Those newfangled devices rely almost exclusively on solid-state hard drives, and smartphones outsold PCs for the first-time last year.
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The Inspiron 9 has the requisite wi-fi connection, a lightweight solid-state hard drive and Intel 's zippy new Atom processor.
He is pinning his hopes for revival on a victory February 17 in Wisconsin's primary and campaigned hard in the state Monday.
But she says life is hard in her state hospital - she says when vital equipment breaks there's no money to repair it.
President Obama appears unlikely to push the Justice Department to take a hard line against state-sanctioned dispensaries, but a Republican successor could easily view things differently.
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It puts pressure on already hard-strapped state and local budgets.
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Polls in Pennsylvania indicate that Santorum holds a dwindling lead over Romney, who is campaigning hard in the state to try to undermine any rationale for Santorum's continued candidacy.
The former private-equity executive also savaged his rival for the work he did for mortgage giant Freddie Mac, an issue that resonated in a state hard-hit by the housing slump.
Intel is introducing a new series of solid-state hard drives that offer up to 600 GB in capacity, CNet reports, as its chip geometrics shrink to just 25 nanometers.
In fact, some Democrats blamed Nader, 69, for siphoning off votes that might have gone to Democratic candidate Al Gore, especially in the hard-fought state of Florida, where Nader took 97, 000 votes.
It reflects the fact that Uribe is trying hard to exercise state control over a country where the state was a disintegrated entity at the mercy of violent non-state actors from the right and from the left.
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He also declared a state of emergency for hard-hit Chemung County in the southwestern part of the state.
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It is highly reluctant to take on affairs of any colony until it has set hard as an independent state.
Do you think you could be facing the same situation there in Indiana, given the economic hard times in your state?
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It is hard to hold your state representatives accountable for their expenditures when you cannot feel the full burden of their expenditures through your taxes.
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It is very hard to convince the state of New York that you have abandoned your New York domicile, which is what she was trying to do.
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The commission clearly wants Congress to act, but it was divided on how hard Congress would push state and local governments to achieve the goals it has outlined.
Due to the fact that the suspect is apprehended before the attack and most often earlier in the planning stages, there is usually not that much hard evidence for the state to find him guilty of a terrorism charge.
Dubai's energetic, tax-hating ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is pushing hard to make the state a regional high-tech center as well, one reason he looked favorably upon the founding five years ago of The American University in Dubai (where yours truly gave the spring commencement address).
But analysts say the match-fixing allegations could call the city-state's hard-won reputation into question.
The economic impact of the quarantine is hard to determine, but state officials are concerned, Lambert said.
Still, at the end of the day, the hard work rests at the state and local level.
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Although some might prefer to live outside Texas, it is hard to argue with no state income tax.
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