When faced with these long-term structural deficits, Governors and their job-seeking coalition partners, such as their State Chamber of Commerce, should realize that it is time to hold state government spending more accountable.
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Its objective is to recalibrate your mind and free you from the imprisonment of your past decisions, to break you free from the buy-and-hold state of mind and turn you into a buy-and-sell investor.
Hint: If they hold a state insurance license, they have no fiduciary duty.
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This makes it possible for each pixel to hold its state without much battery power.
"Judicial review is vital in allowing ordinary people to hold the state to account, " said Shami Chakrabarti, the organisation's director.
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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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They must hold a state license and a doctor of pharmacy degree from an accredited program, earned after two or three years of postsecondary study.
An Iowa Democratic Party official said that there are no plans to hold the state's caucuses around the Christmas holidays despite the decisions by other states to move up their nominating contests into January.
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The big New York financial houses don't seem to care, say critics, as long as the money rolls in -- and the Asia growth funds that hold Chinese state firms are among the higher performers in the market.
If the GOP can sustain that, he argues, its hold on the state should remain firm until early in the next decade.
But Mr Kerry's hold on the state may depend rather more than he would like on that hovering cloud of economic gloom.
Mr Saleh stood accused of amassing power and wealth for his immediate family, nimbly wielding oil revenues and foreign aid to perpetuate his 33-year-long hold on the state.
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We'll know more next week: Fourth-quarter growth data is expected, the FOMC meets, OPEC will decide whether to boost oil supplies (which would ease some pressure on the U.S. economy) and President Bush will hold his final State of the Union address.
Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of the state's population, but Hispanics hold only three of the state's 25 congressional seats.
That would be a bitter reverse for Mr Romney in the first rustbelt state in the Midwest to hold a primary, the very state where he grew up and where his father was a popular governor.
"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.
Rhode Island, the only state to hold a popular referendum on the Constitution, rejected it.
Each of those dots, in theory, could hold a distinct magnetic state, representing a one or a zero.
In 1963, black student Harvey Gantt entered Clemson College in South Carolina, the last state to hold out against integration.
Many Shia clergymen either depend on his largesse or hold loyalty to the state and its Islamic mission above matters of personal opinion.
The concern among those contractors and utilities is that one group or one state can hold up projects that would traverse multiple jurisdictions.
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Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, sees green technology beginning to take hold in the Golden State.
Alliance MP Naomi Long has called on the Secretary of State to hold talks to discuss how best to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
It marks the start of the six-month period during which each US state will hold primary elections or caucuses to pick a Republican candidate, who will be officially nominated at the party convention in August.
If, however, you live in a community property state and hold property jointly, at the death of the first spouse the entire property is stepped up in basis--meaning it can be sold immediately without gains tax.
University officials say that asking the state to seize hold-out businesses is a last resort.
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Republicans hold a majority in 33 state delegations to 16 delegations for the Democrats.
Mr Putin has responded by consolidating the state's hold over domestic oil and gas reserves.
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