New York state is poised to become the first state to choose one of the two, with more states expected to make decisions later in March, according to state education officials.
Early results from the Election Commission of India indicated that center-left Congress was leading in races for 121 seats in the 224-member state assembly while the Hindu nationalist BJP, which currently holds power in the state, was poised to win 38 seats.
The US state of Maryland is poised to abolish the death penalty after its lawmakers voted 82 to 56 in favour of the move.
Even the state courts in my home state of Utah are poised to soon join the modern world and allow cameras and mobile electronic devices in the courtroom.
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Santorum supporters were gleeful on Wednesday, saying that in spite of polling in single digits in the state last month, their candidate is poised to pick up significant votes as a result of his unexpectedly strong finish in Iowa, just eight votes behind Mr. Romney.
On Thursday, I went to Penn State University, whose students and researchers are poised to lead the way on innovation and job creation.
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As NPR's Tovia Smith reports, due to the state's budget crisis, Massachusetts is now poised to drop 30, 000 legal immigrants from its coverage.
Once you know what to look for, this kind of scaling shows up all over the place in natural systems that are poised on the edge of change in a critical state.
Even in the face of the Obama administration's strongly urban-centric, blue state-oriented economic policy, these generally less than hip places appear poised to grow as the economy recovers.
And now a new partnership in Colorado is poised to leverage space and energy technologies to bring down-to-Earth economic benefits to the Rocky Mountain State.
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