Their crime: trying to curb the spending excesses of Sooner State politicians.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has told her legislature that the Sooner State will face high economic hurdles in the future if it is an income-tax sandwich between Texas and Kansas.
Myanmar may go from cruel repression to failed state sooner than many think, and in Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese are at each other's throats again, urgently drawing international peacemakers.
What will be interesting to see now is whether Perlmutter's and colleagues' Nobel triumph provides the impetus to find the money to build WFirst sooner (one should state that Perlmutter's colleagues included many collaborators, including Europeans).
While changes to federal tax law may be a catalyst for moving to another state, I actually feel there are plenty of tax reasons why Phil Mickelson should have moved to a more tax friendly state much sooner.
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Mr Putin has hinted that more state companies will, sooner or later, be privatised.
"I hope that we resolve this issue sooner rather than later because the state of Illinois has some tremendous financial problems to deal with, which in my view is where we should be concentrating our focus and our time, " he said.
But Mr Ryan has said that, because America's trade embargo against Cuba will not last for ever, it behoves his state to make Cuban friends sooner rather than later.
When that day comes, sooner or later, competent managers of the state will need to be found.
By contrast, Greece is a bankrupt, high-tax welfare state, and the United States sooner or later will suffer the same fate because of misguided entitlement programs.
And Democratic partisans believe that sooner or later voters will reward Gore for the state of the U.S. economy, with its high growth rate, low unemployment and growing budget surplus.
Improving economic indicators and Barisan's morale-boosting victory in Sabah's state election in March also point to polls sooner rather than later, possibly before Parliament convenes its budget session in October.
Although it is later rather than sooner, I have no problem with Phil changing his state of residence for tax purposes so long as he is otherwise happy with this decision.
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Reform must happen, and the sooner the better, says Ellen Hanak of the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, because the state's problems will only get worse with climate change.
Because of this unusual state of legal affairs, as we will see in a moment, getting the petition drive going sooner rather than later could result in a very unfortunate ending for those who would like to see Governor Walker go away.
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