At the same time, its larger profile soon made it the focus of the state's counterinsurgency efforts.

The characters ' efforts to succeed or hold on to their success are interwoven with the efforts of a political operative and a local businessman to stage a concert rally before the state's presidential primary for a populist outsider running for president of the United States on the Replacement Party ticket.

These efforts are typically supported by owners of casinos and other large businesses, claiming that legalized prostitution harms the state's image.

In 1975, Brown obtained the repeal of the " depletion allowance ", a tax break for the state's oil industry, despite the efforts of lobbyist Joe Shell, a former intraparty rival to Richard M. Nixon.

Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore appointed Dean to the Virginia Board of Game and Inland Fisheries, which oversees the state's wildlife efforts and boating laws.

Another initiative that year was to abolish the state's Department of Environmental Protection, allegedly because of its role in efforts by the Sioux to block resource development in the Black Hills.

His period of service in the Ohio state legislature was most notable for his efforts to modernize the state's antiquated tax laws.

After returning from an international conference in Munich in mid-February 2011, Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused foreign reconstruction teams of undermining efforts to build up the state's institutions, and said they would have to go as Afghan forces take over security.

Scott was honored in 2008 by the North Carolina Society for preserving state archives and historic artifacts and his efforts to increase awareness of the state's history.

Heitkamp's best-known achievement as Attorney General of North Dakota was to lead the state's legal efforts against tobacco companies that resulted in the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement ..

The Seljuqs became vassals of the Mongols, following the battle of Kose Dag, and despite the efforts of shrewd administrators to preserve the state's integrity, the power of the sultanate disintegrated during the second half of the 13th century and had disappeared completely by the first decade of the 14th.

During his three terms as Attorney General, Gorton was recognized for taking the unusual step of appearing personally to argue the state's positions before the Supreme Court of the United States and for prevailing in those efforts.

In Missouri, many of the party joined the new Unconditional Union Party headed by Francis P. Blair, Jr. and remained active in that state's efforts to remain in the Union by overthrowing the elected government of Claiborne Jackson.

During his term of office, Governor King froze property taxes, reduced state spending on social programs, undertook a variety of efforts to encourage increased business and agricultural opportunities in the Commonwealth, and took a tough stand on crime by introducing mandatory minimum sentences and passing legislation to reintroduce the death penalty in Massachusetts, a measure which was later ruled unconstitutional by the state's Supreme Judicial Court.

He continued his efforts to reduce the state's debt, and by the time he left office in 1853, the entire deficit had been eliminated.

During his time in the House, Foley repeatedly opposed efforts to impose term limits on Washington state's elected officials, winning the support of the state's voters to reject term limits in a 1991 referendum.

Patton opposed secession but supported the state's efforts through time and money and as a commissioner for the Confederacy.

When Kentucky was admitted to the Union in 1792, Greenup moved to Frankfort where he was rewarded for his efforts on behalf of the state by being chosen as an elector for the state's senators and governor.

He was a leader in legislative efforts to revamp the state's educational funding system and ushered through a law that created the state's first comprehensive water conservation and management plan, and promoted establishing a state museum in the Capitol Complex.

Recent efforts that have received such recognition include a series of stories that resulted in the resignation and criminal conviction of the state House of Delegates education chairman, a series on the environmental effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, a series on the state's " failed " attempts to deal with its residents suffering from mental illness, and a series on the deaths nationwide from the widespread use of methadone.

As the state's finances would not allow the large scale improvements Hendricks envisioned, he focused efforts on creating critical routes and approved legislation that required state residents to spend allotted amounts of time helping to build the state roads.

Colombia planned to finance US $ 4 billion of the estimated US $ 7. 5 billion overall cost, most of which would go towards the social portion of the project, but was ultimately unable to do so due to the state's 1997 – 1998 economic crisis.

The state's climate lends itself towards long days and hours of sunshine with cool nights that contributes to a significant diurnal temperature variation and produces wines with New World fruitiness and Old World structure.

" Since there are at present no such untaxed Native Americans ( Indians ), all persons inhabiting a state — whether citizens or not — count towards the population of that state in determining the state's congressional apportionment.

The Chelsea school system has historically been towards the bottom of the state's test score rankings.

In general, Friedman favors a heavy U. S. intervention in the Mideast peace process, geared towards forcing the Israelis to withdraw from territories viewed by Israelis as necessary for the Israeli state's security.

Futurist architects were sometimes at odds with the Fascist state's tendency towards Roman imperial-classical aesthetic patterns.

Because this reduces the state's tax income, calls have been raised that the state ( and the public in general ) should pay more attention towards ensuring that charities actually use this ' tax money ' in suitable ways.

As Controller, Westly opposed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to change Proposition 98, which requires a certain amount of the state's budget to go towards funding public education and community colleges, and in 2005, he created a tax amnesty plan that allowed individuals and corporations who owed back taxes to prevent facing criminal charges and increased penalties if they would immediately pay their back taxes.

Specifically, in most U. S. jurisdictions, graduation from an ABA-accredited law school is expressly stated as a prerequisite towards being allowed to sit for that state's bar exam, and even for existing lawyers to be admitted to the bar of another state upon motion.

All new public building projects in Minnesota must comply with the state's “ One Percent for Art ” law, passed by the State Legislature in 1984, which mandates that all such projects in Minnesota costing over $ 500, 000 must devote at least 1 % of their total construction budget towards incorporating public art into these building's public spaces.

More than a few residents of Western Massachusetts take a critical attitude towards Boston, the state's capital and largest city.

From exile, he continued to advocate a hardline stance towards Israel, refused cooperation with the PNA and repeatedly embarrassed the PLO during negotiations with Israel by making statements denying the Jewish state's right to exist.

In 2006 it also launched The Oxx, a semi-weekly circular geared towards males that in the summer of 2007 was turned into a monthly called OxxCycle, covering the state's motorcycling scene.

During the campaign, Johnston, now Governor of South Carolina, was strongly supportive of Roosevelt's foreign policy, but was now lukewarm towards the New Deal and was able to the snatch the " flag of white supremacy " from Smith by boasting how he countered the US Supreme Court's recent Smith v. Allwright decision, which ruled that racial segregation in state primaries was unconstitutional, by passing a series of laws making the South Carolina Democratic Party a private club which could keep blacks from voting in the state's primary.

Intensified protests over the course of the 1980s led to an improvement in the state's attitudes towards Hindus.

Although not Vermont's longest river, it is one of the state's most significant, forming a major valley way from Lake Champlain through the Green Mountains towards ( although not connecting in drainage to ) the Connecticut River valley.

State laws forbid any person from engaging in the unauthorized practice of law and practicing attorneys are subject to rules of professional conduct that are enforced by the state's high court.

The state's record high temperature is, set in July 1911, at North Bridgton.

The state's high point, White Butte at, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park are located in the Badlands.

In the US, school performance through high school is monitored by each state's Department of Education.

* 1988: Staff of the Alabama Journal ( Montgomery ), " for its compelling investigation of the state's unusually high infant-mortality rate, which prompted legislation to combat the problem.

By this time the Labor government was in deep crisis, with the some of the state's financial institutions on the brink of insolvency, the budget deficit unsustainably high and growing and the Labor Party deeply divided on how to respond to the situation.

Plainfield High School was the 307th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 293rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.

However, this performance did not prove enough to offset a backlash against the state's high sales and property tax rates, which turned out to be the predominant issue in the 1978 gubernatorial campaign.

The veto was an essential component of the Roman conception of power being wielded not only to manage state affairs but to moderate and restrict the power of the state's high officials and institution.

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.

In 1997, the high school basketball team reached the state's final four tournament.

Marianna has five schools, all of which usually perform in the high C-low B range in the state's FCAT grade scale.

In 1911, Crawfordsville High School ( motto: Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve ) was founded, and promptly won the state's first high school basketball title.

Both schools are well known as having high academic achievement under the state's school improvement plan and No Child Left Behind.

The high school had an average score of 22. 1 on the state's MEAP test in 2011.

The high school had an average score of 10. 3 on the state's MEAP test in 2011.

The high school had an average score of 3. 8 on the state's MEAP test in 2011.

It was the last year in the state's high school basketball playoffs where there were no divisions.

Pascack Hills High School was the 7th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 12th in 2008 out of 316 schools.

The high school was the 14th-ranked public high school in New Jersey ( third highest in Bergen County ) out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 18th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.

Ramsey High School was the 30th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 33rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.

The school was the 28th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 20th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.

The school was the 3rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after also being ranked 3rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.

The school was the 12th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 4th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.