Foreign transnationals are welcome in areas such as oil and gas, although the law gives the state the upper hand.
South Carolina Republicans went to the polls in drab, cold weather, with snow in the state's upper regions, where many of the state's more conservative, evangelical Christian voters live.
After Mr Bentsen's retirement in 1994, the state's upper offices turned solidly Republican.
It is deeply concerned about who controls the Nile waters, and does not want the creation of a new state on the upper Nile.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, lagging behind in the polls, began a slew of events in the state Tuesday, holding three in the upper part of the state, as his opponents continued to press the flesh in New Hampshire.
The challenge is particularly poignant for West Point, since an Army sergeant was charged earlier in the week with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the upper New York state academy, including in a bathroom.
The challenge is particularly poignant for the West Point crowd, since earlier in the week an Army sergeant was charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the upper New York state academy, including in a bathroom.
The centre-right has a majority not only in the Bundestag, the lower house, but also in the Bundesrat, the upper house made up of state representatives, which it will retain so long as it keeps control of North Rhine-Westphalia next May.
For a start, the economy has changed drastically: where the state predominated in 1988, the market has the upper hand today.
About 5, 200 years ago, the first pharaoh managed to unify Upper and Lower Egypt into a single state with Memphis as its capital.
Some 16, 000 candidates will contest the elections to Parliament's lower house, the Lok Sabha. (The members of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house, are indirectly elected by state assemblies or appointed by the president.) In addition, about 17, 000 candidates will simultaneously contest the elections to the six state legislatures.
For someone in the upper federal brackets living in a high-tax state, this can amount to a 40% or more government subsidy of borrowing costs.
The Northern Lights happen when incoming solar radiation hits the earth's upper atmosphere and excites atoms to a new energy state, emitting colours which is energy in the form of light.
And, after the game went to overtime, and then penalty kicks, to decide the Hawaii state champion, that was Leo blasting the ball into the upper right corner of the net on Kalani's final shot for the deciding margin.
His Social Democrats lost control of the upper house, the Bundesrat, after a defeat in a state election in February.
Hostage negotiators remained in contact with Murphy throughout the standoff, passing food and water through an upper window of the two-storey house, New Jersey State Police Colonel Rick Fuentes said on Sunday morning.
The upper chamber of Congress was a constitutional compromise between popular sovereignty and state sovereignty.
If Colonel Qaddafi's state crumbles, the West should not seek to disband his army or the upper echelons of his administration, as it foolishly did in Iraq.
Dilma Rousseff was born in 1947 and grew up in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte, in the coffee-growing state of Minas Gerais.
Travis Phelps, spokesman for the Washington State Department of Transportation, said a flatbed truck with an oversize load hit the upper part of the steel-lattice bridge.
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Egypt's upper house of parliament is receiving 90 new members Sunday morning, according to state-run Nile TV.
This shadow tax system, created in 1969 to make sure fat cats with oil wells paid some tax, now hits upper-middle-income folks who claim too many deductions for ordinary stuff like state and local taxes.
State Police said both fell out of their raft on the Indian River, which flows into the upper Hudson, and that Fay was drunk.
So this suggests that Vice President Cheney, at least on this issue, seems weakened, that those in the State Department who wanted all along to engage diplomatically and directly with the North Koreans may have the upper hand.
According to this view, narrow intense interests gain the upper hand in the long run over broad diffuse ones, and this tends to enlarge the state.
Trout and salmon may inhabit the dreams (and literature) of the upper classes, but the pugnacious, voracious bigmouth bass is everyman's fish, found in every state save Alaska.
Even upper-middle-class natives find themselves unable to afford houses in some parts of the city-state, such as Sentosa Cove, where more than 60 percent of the houses are owned by foreigners.
Thomas Harrah of Seth performed at least 228 pre-shift, on-shift and conveyor belt safety examinations at Upper Big Branch over a nearly two-year period from January 2008 to August 2009, according to state records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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