Jersey City, Paterson and Newark came under state control in a series of takeovers from 1989 to 1995, and local residents often complain that the state should have either improved the districts by now or return control to local authorities.
In the 2010 mid-terms Democrats lost 63 House seats, six Senate seats, six governorships and a whopping 680 seats in state legislatures, giving Republicans bicameral legislative and executive control in 15 states and the biggest tally of state legislators since 1928.
Prior to the 1990s, the Democrats had a built-in advantage in partisan control of state legislatures because of their dominance in the South.
With a state takeover of Detroit, nearly half of the state's African-American population will live in a city under state control.
Development picked up in the past decade, fueled by a move away from state control and by billions in tourist dollars, but analysts say its gains have been unevenly distributed.
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His retirement gave Republicans an opportunity to win his seat for the first time in 30 years and take complete control of the state's representatives in the House.
But this too is nothing new as Democrats have also perfected this practice in the years where Democrats have found themselves in control of state government at redistricting time.
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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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An aide said Mr. Cuomo has been focused above all in recent months on the passage of a new state budget and tougher gun-control laws in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
PAS. It has long held power in the northern state of Kelantan but in the election it also won control of neighbouring oil-rich Terengganu.
They control the state governments in 21 states totaling 242 electoral votes.
It also urged state governments, which control policing in India, to scrap draconian laws used by the police to lock up repeat offenders.
That assumption may be worth re-examining, not only because China's vast state apparatus shows little interest in shedding control but also because some Western markets are starting to look a bit more like China's.
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In December it announced that state-owned enterprises under the central government would remain in control of industrial sectors considered crucial to national security and economic welfare: military equipment, electric power, oil and petrochemicals, telecommunications, coal, aviation and shipping.
In Colorado, the Democrats somewhat surprisingly won control of the state Senate, earning them a say in redistricting in a very fast-growing state.
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The Democrats also have a good chance in Colorado, where they already control both state houses, the governor's mansion and one Senate seat, and in Nebraska, if they can get Bob Kerrey, a former governor and senator, to forsake academia for a return to politics.
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Just one GOP loss in those recall races would flip control of the state Senate back to Democrats, at least until the next election in November.
Earlier governments had sold small stakes in state enterprises, but kept management control.
This past week, Connecticut passed what advocacy groups call the strongest gun-control legislation of any state in the country.
On Wednesday, Connecticut Senate President Donald Williams Jr called a new gun control proposal in that state, which was unveiled on Monday after weeks of negotiation, a "strong, comprehensive bill".
There was growing talk of a strike, and a deal suited Randi Weingarten, head of the teachers' union, who was able to persuade her allies in state politics to agree to mayoral control of the board.
This cardinal principle of state policy is embedded in the strict export-control regime regarding sensitive technologies.
Her herd is taking part in a joint federal-state programme to control the disease (which includes culling sick cows).
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Beginning in 1990, the state divested itself of control of the energy industry.
All of this went on under a legal architecture that had existed for years, including a 1974 state gun-control law considered the strictest in the nation.
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Neurologically, scientists are still working to understand boredom's effects on the brain, but they theorize that the state involves a failure in the neural networks that control attention.
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In state elections in Germany at the weekend Merkel's party suffered an electoral setback, losing control of Germany's most populous state to the opposition Social Democratic Party.
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