Seventeen states already allow this and legislation now in the Senate would encourage others to do so.

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Seventeen states are now considering cuts in everything from public-health services to higher-education funding in the next fiscal year, which for most states begins on July 1st.

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Seventeen states have passed similar laws, most recently Missouri.

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Seventeen states revised their plans in the middle of this fiscal year, cutting spending, cancelling or delaying capital projects, issuing more debt and, in four states, raising taxes (by more than 5% in Arizona and New Hampshire).

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Seventeen states currently have enacted these laws.

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Seventeen additional states and Washington, D.

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Seventeen countries, provinces and states permit gay marriage, including such cutting-edge places as Portugal and Belgium, says Robert Wintemute, a lawyer at Kings College London who is representing the litigants.

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Seventeen of the EU-27 member-states are part of the euro zone.

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Seventeen submitted fewer than 10 records, and four states hadn't reported a single record to the federal background check system, according to the federal investigation, conducted by the Government Accountability Office.

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Seventeen million members of the Armed Forces of the United States -- and their families -- have lived in Germany ever since the Second World War.

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