On the other hand, the BLS reported that Texas added nearly 30, 000 jobs, the tenth month in a row that the state showed positive employment growth.

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The West is Australia's largest state, with just one-tenth of the country's population.

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Howard Frank, dean of the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, says that state money now fills about a tenth of his coffers, against 50-60% five years ago.

ECONOMIST: State universities

Car makers began to take fuel cells seriously after California decreed that, by 2004, a tenth of all cars they sold in the state must not produce emissions, on pain of being barred from the market.

ECONOMIST: Fuel cells meet big business

Agriculture uses more than 80% of the state's water, though it accounts for less than a tenth of the economy.

ECONOMIST: Water policy

Listed Chinese firms, which are largely state-controlled, are already some of the world's biggest, and account for over a tenth of global stockmarket value.

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The state's lottery is among the country's most successful, and the Detroit area is the tenth-largest casino-feeder market in the country, according to a 1996 survey by Harrah's Entertainment, a casino company.

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