11.   Given the difficulty of meeting the humanitarian needs of people inside Afghanistan, it is crucial that neighboring states keep their borders open to Afghans seeking safety.

12.   Glickman told Racicot that the state could keep its brucellosis-free status even though some pregnant bison were on land where cattle will graze later in the year.

13.   House Republicans want to authorize states to keep the children of illegal immigrants out of public schools, while Senate Republicans think that is a remarkably foolish idea.

14.   Identifying sexual predators also has been difficult, Gramm said, because records of such crimes are kept by states.

15.   In Powerball, for instance, the state keeps half and the rest goes back for prizes.

16.   In order for the state to keep from becoming a barracks, the regulations must be observed without fail in the army.

17.   Increasingly, however, those states have kept the electricity for themselves, as their own demand has soared.

18.   Indeed, a federal waiver by Congress may be required for the states to keep all the money.

19.   It also would let states keep children of undocumented aliens out of public schools, among other provisions.

20.   It would have allowed the states to keep the tobacco money but would have mandated that half of it be spend on health-related programs.