On the other hand, states like Florida and Texas have become famous tax havens.
Like Florida, Nevada has been hard hit by the crumbling economy and housing market crisis.
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That includes letting him campaign in states like Florida, Iowa and Pennsylvania with large senior populations.
Cinderella teams like Florida Gulf Coast University and LaSalle have danced their way onto the main stage.
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Shoulder injuries and mild team success hurt his stock and he found himself picked behind quarterbacks like Florida State's E.
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The McCain campaign worked feverishly in recent days to maximize their voters in key areas of swing states like Florida.
OK, there are a few spots (like Florida and New England) where oil is used to produce a little electricity.
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But one of the most interesting sidebars was the power of the Puerto Rican vote in surprising places like Florida.
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Some people also retire to states with a lower state income tax or even none at all like Florida or Texas.
Because realtors in 2011, especially those working in distressed areas like Florida, need to use every bit of technology available to succeed.
It is also not exactly a secret that the Latino vote could be critical in swing states like Florida, Colorado and Nevada.
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Most PGA Tour players live in no-tax states like Florida or Texas.
It means winning races in key battlegrounds like Florida, where Rep. Connie Mack is emerging as the most able fiscal conservative, and Ohio.
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Georgia can hardly sustain a 6% income tax if businesses can skip across the border into neighboring states like Florida, Tennessee or South Carolina.
But in states like Florida that are fairly evenly balanced between supporters of the two national parties, the military vote can decide election outcomes.
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Even as Ryan fires up conservatives, he may also mobilize votes for Obama -- including senior citizens who reside in key swing states like Florida.
California, like Florida (Grimley's home state), is one of a dozen states requiring all parties, rather than only one, to consent to the taping of calls.
Republicans like Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Arizona Senator John McCain, who are behind the Senate plan, will be wary of any endorsement from the president.
Again most people would accept that too many houses and apartments were built in Ireland and Spain, as well as individual American states like Florida and Nevada.
Not quite accurate in terms of timing, he says, but he does say that the population is aging, and eventually the whole country will look like Florida.
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Florida's popular governor, Charlie Crist, tried to persuade the candidates to back a federal subsidy for home insurance for people who live in hurricane-prone places like Florida.
And they didn't take the big dive that a lot of places like Florida and Nevada and so forth did, because we don't have speculators in our market.
With such a crowded calendar, they have the resources to compete in big states like Florida and Michigan and to recover quickly from a setback in Iowa or New Hampshire.
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That being said, states like Florida (49), Georgia (57) and Illinois (42) have the most failures, but Florida has a law that prohibits a judgment that would bankrupt a defendant.
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"There's no reason we can't maintain the rivalry going forward, much like Florida-Florida State, Clemson-South Carolina and Georgia-Georgia Tech, " Missouri spokesman Chad Moller wrote in an email, referring to annual nonconference rivalries.
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That does not mean that ACC schools are entirely without valuable media rights, but it puts the conference at a significant disadvantage and has led schools like Florida State and Clemson to consider leaving the ACC for another conference.
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Moreover, you should keep in mind that the total enrollments at each of the top ten colleges put together is only about the equivalent to the enrollment of a single flagship state university, like Florida State, Ohio State, or Arizona.
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Enroll America is planning to send volunteers door-to-door in communities with high rates of uninsured people as part of a bigger campaign that is likely to focus on states like Florida and Texas, in part because officials there have signaled their opposition to the health law and aren't expected to promote it aggressively.
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