It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.
And while that might not sound like a lot, remember that those votes are spread out across an entire state -- what that looks like across hundreds of cities and thousands of precincts.
Moreover, with the wide array of hospitals across the country--from large university teaching hospitals such as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to multi-state systems like Adventist Health to small critical-access facilities--there are numerous variables to consider.
On a circle runway, one by one the models walked in trance-like state in sepia-toned lighting showing clothes that ranged from pajama loungewear to mannish jackets to knits to long fluid gowns.
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"There are at least two types of problematic local-lawsuit cultures, the ones where the lawsuits mostly target in-state defendants like doctors and local governments, and the ones where it's mostly out-of-state defendants, " says Olson.
Maybe you live in a high-tax state like Oregon or New York and will be retiring to a low-tax one like Texas or New Hampshire.
And Pennzoil-Quaker State, like Nabisco, has two of the best-known brands in the business.
They are college-educated--usually with multiple degrees--and live in blue-state enclaves like Boston, New York, Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Tax rises remain unpopular, and so are deep cuts to important state-provided services like schools and the police.
He took care to sue in Delaware, where the companies are incorporated, and cited only state-law claims like negligence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his officials will channel cash from the fund into state-controlled companies like Gazprom and Lukoil to make acquisitions.
Big onshore fields in the world's most prolific hydrocarbon provinces are increasingly the preserve of national oil companies, state-owned behemoths like Saudi Aramco and Russia's OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom.
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Most spots are for state-owned companies like Qatar Petroleum.
But China and Russia, who are have been setting up new SWF's, are set to make bigger and more ambitious purchases through state-owned companies like Gazprom and the China Development Bank (CDB).
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his officials will channel cash from the fund into state-controlled companies like Gazprom and Lukoil (other-otc: LUKOY - news - people ) to make acquisitions.
He goes on to suggest that US military power is at present sufficient to deter state cyberwar, although he recognises that we cannot assume this will always be the case, particularly against non-state actors like terrorists.
Obama had also proposed reducing agricultural subsidies to farmers with sales of more than half a million dollars a year, a notion that farm-state senators like Conrad, who have disproportionate influence on the Budget and Finance Committees, rejected.
Kaspersky Labs' namesake Eugene Kaspersky is worried that widely distributed and potentially state-sponsored malware like Flame and Stuxnet pose dire threats to often lightly protected infrastructure like communication and power plants -- whatever your nationality, it's clearly bad for the civilian population of a given country to suffer even collateral damage from cyberattacks.
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For now the biggest threat isn't Obama but cash-strapped state governments like New York's, where Governor David A. Paterson's income-tax hikes could push the top rate for New York City dwellers to 12.6%.
At the time, Fingar was - like Negroponte - a State Department bureaucrat.
Recently, Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi of Manhattan's Torrisi Italian Specialties teased the cow tummy into a calamari-like state.
Another way is to reprogram mature cells into an embryonic-like state, which can then be turned into other tissues of the body.
The case has highlighted the difficulties doctors face when trying to diagnose the level of consciousness of a patient in a coma-like state.
She was fighting for the right to allow doctors to increase her medication to induce a coma-like state and then have food and hydration withdrawn.
All reported that during the study they were able to reach their usual trance-like state during the psychography task and were in their regular state of consciousness during the control task.
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As out-of-state banks, like the ones in Texarkana, Texas, offer more flexible credit packages, businesses and owners of expensive homes will continue to decamp to the Texas side of the line.
This rhythmic moving back and forth between a sustained, trance-like state and the adrenaline-packed jolts tends to induce an overall contemplative yet alert state, akin to the feeling one has when driving on a long road trip on uncongested highways.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) in every state to compete as a nonprofit-like entity against health care insurers.
Congress will also try to muscle in on banking regulation: at the very least, it will try to ensure that state attorneys-general, like Mr Spitzer, no longer drive a process that they believe to be the preserve of the federal government and federal agencies.
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