Since the closing of the Bank of the United States, the government had kept its money in a number of state banks.

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Faced with the risk of financial meltdown, the Czech government has at last dropped its insistence that banks be kept in state hands.

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But if Perry does run, American voters will have a real choice: A principled conservative who has kept his state fiscally sound, lightly regulated, a magnet for business and a place where Americans increasingly want to live.

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Close to 2, 700 people are on a missing persons list kept by the state, Cataldie said.

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