But cities, counties and school districts, like states, showed indecent largesse during the boom years in their pension promises, often using wildly unrealistic investment assumptions.
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Sectarian factions operate like states within states, with multi-billion-dollar concerns.
Indian tribes, like states, don't pay corporate taxes on the businesses they own, and the use of tribes in aggressive corporate tax shelters has been whispered about for years ( FORBES, Dec. 14, 1998).
"The federal government has to balance its budget like the states do and like individual families do in this country, " said Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad.
Mr Cameron said countries like Britain and states like California should take the lead to show environmental protection need not be at the expense of economic recovery.
They are also much too quick to assume that the sort of blueprints that work for city states like Singapore or small countries like Denmark might work for goliaths like the United States.
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In states like Mississippi, which respondents to ATRA's survey described as particularly hostile to class-action defendants, local business defendants often have a home-field advantage, whereas other states like New Jersey--home to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, and highlighted as a bad place for them to get sued--treat in-state defendants as roughly as out-of-state defendants.
While I suspect Romney will win states like Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont, there are at least three or four Super Tuesday states, like Georgia, Oklahoma and Ohio, where he trails considerably.
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If localities like the District or if states like Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, if they want to seek a disaster declaration from the federal government, those requests are made by those states and localities.
There are -- some of the states where early childhood education programs have been pioneered, where genuine investments have been made are states like Georgia and Alabama, states that are not traditionally known to be dominated by Democrats, as you will.
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While so-called judicial states (where the foreclosure process goes through the courts) like New York have seen price declines, administrative states like Arizona experienced impressive comebacks, with home prices in Phoenix, for example, growing more than 22% over the 12 months to February.
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States with weaker labour markets, like South Carolina and Michigan, also tend to have larger black populations than low-unemployment states like Iowa and Montana.
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Like many states in the US, California virtually abandoned the mentally ill several decades ago.
Illinois, like other states, has dug its super-sized pension pothole in other ways as well.
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It's not like the States - Chicago airport has nothing around it for 300 miles (482km).
Like many states, Texas requires companies with a physical presence there to collect sales tax.
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The rating agencies like the states to keep a balance of at least 5% of spending.
The state of Tennessee, like many states, had a low bar on No Child Left Behind.
They do have an impact in some places, like swing states, such as Nevada, Colorado and Florida.
Like many states, Oregon and Washington require local utilities to boost the portion of the power they produce from renewables.
California, like many states, is faced with a budgetary tsunami, and our leadership has chosen the wrong path to resolution.
Like many states in the Northeast, Connecticut wasn't always so densely wooded.
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The Education Department - like all States of Guernsey departments - is entitled, but not obliged, to nominate up to two non-voting members.
Like most states around the country, Nevada is struggling with serious budget woes, difficult immigration questions and one of the worst foreclosure problems in the nation.
Ohio, like most states, has a rape shield law that limits the amount of information of an alleged victim's past that can be explored in court.
He hoped Armstrong talked to agencies like United States Anti-Doping.
This policy that the Justice Department is enacting now, is that -- should that be taken as a signal that the administration would like more states to allow this?
California, like other states that are in the midst of carrying out their green energy goals, is constrained by the amount of space it has available on its transmission system.
And because Illinois is dependent, like many states, on local property taxes to pay for its schools, wealthy districts spend nearly four times as much per student as the poorest districts.
And also it would be a tough sell to consumer nations like United States, saying, you know, hey, we're going to cut production at a time when oil is at record highs.
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