Moreover, in some of the states with a levy, the amount of assets exempted from the tax has changed from year to year.
On top of that, over half of the states require their utilities to sell an increasing amount of renewable electricity.
Yet the number of people receiving home and community care, and the amount of money individual states put into that care, varies widely.
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An entrepreneur herself, Wurwand came to the United States with a small amount of money and a dream of independence, and hustled to make it big.
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It requires drug manufacturers to rebate to the states about 15 percent of the amount the state pays for brand name prescription drugs, or 11 percent for generics.
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They don't explain how it led to the longest economic expansion in peacetime in the United States and the creation of vast amount of wealth not just for millionaires and billionaires, but for the middle class and 23 million new jobs.
Over half of the states now require their utilities to add an increasing amount of renewable electricity into their supplies.
While they did not embrace wholesale legalization for production and sale of any amount of marijuana, voters in these states nonetheless chose to make it legal to possess and grow marijuana.
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More than a dozen other states exempt some annual dollar amount of seniors' income--from private pensions, IRAs and sometimes other nonwage sources (see table).
"What is going on right now are technical discussions between the Iraqis and each of the Gulf Arab states, including the Saudis, on exactly what the amount of the debt is, whether that would include interest, what are the documents that would support the actual claim, " he said.
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We're seeing numbers that she has got to win an extraordinary amount of votes in the big states - Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania - something along the lines of 65 percent to 35 percent to get the amount of delegates that she needs.
Rube: States the amount, in the form of a question, often sounding more like a plea.
These four states have also lost a disproportionate amount of jobs in construction or manufacturing or both, way above the national levels.
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The U.S. Department of Energy says in the seven years that hybrids have been available here, the total amount of gasoline saved adds up to less than the amount the United States imports every day.
Since the massive blackout that wracked the east coast of the United States and large parts of Canada back in 2003, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation about the development of a "smart grid" that will provide a safe, reliable, efficient and resilient energy infrastructure.
In a typical year, about 100 million people in the United States get flu shots and a fair amount of leftover vaccine must be destroyed at the end of the season.
Also, the magazine states the console has a "large amount of flash memory, " so that no matter what hard drive you end up with, you'll always have the system software running from the included flash.
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Perhaps as early as March 31, the United States will reach the ceiling on the amount of debt it can legally hold, according to a letter Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent to congressional leaders Thursday.
Even as they were drafting the language for the Stop Online Piracy Act, it appears that the United States Congresspeople were engaging in a liberal amount of online piracy, according to a report from Torrent Freak.
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Microsoft's lawsuit states that Google had requested an excessive amount of money for its Frand-type patents - rights that were supposed to be offered on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms since Motorola had acknowledged their critical status.
The amount of money the United States has left on the tourism table in the past decade should be enough to convince Congress that we need to shift course and entice rather than repel this huge source of jobs and revenue.
The laissez-faire economic model of the United States has led to a corporate cronyism where the top companies are allowed a large amount of freedom to police themselves and their own governance standards for things like executive pay, performance, and general corporate responsibility.
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The renewable fuels standard (RFS), originally established in the Energy Act of 2005, requires an increasing amount of biofuel to be blended into gasoline sold in the United States over the coming years.
Fewer people in need means the states could provide greater support with the same amount of money.
To avoid duplicating tests on animals, companies will be required to increase the amount of data exchange across member states.
States were only responsible for firms below that amount of assets.
So, once again, the South China Sea, a vital interest to the region, a national interest to the United States, an area that carries an immense amount of commerce, and an area in which we must maintain maritime security and peace and not see disruptions as a consequence of contested areas in others.
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Over the past two and a half years, I would argue, you have seen unprecedented leadership at the state level: 44 or 45 states raising standards, three dozen states removing barriers to innovation, a huge amount of leadership and courage not so much coming out of here in Washington, but at the state level.
In the United States, television advertising still accounts for the largest amount of ad expenditures.
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Can you tell us the amount of military cooperation between the United States and Baghdad in this area?
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