The commission also wants the state government to roughly quadruple the amount of controlled burning it undertakes, and develop a voluntary scheme to acquire land in areas of unacceptably high bushfire risk.

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After 1900, Mexican immigrants came to the area in force, according to the Texas State Historical Association, and in the 1960s, as America began burning more and more oil and natural gas, Lee County was happy to produce it.

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The burning question is whether the scale of Bankia's hole provides clues about the state of other weak lenders.

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And so it went, with Palin burning some hard-won political capital right up to the day before the election, when the state's personnel board exonerated her.

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