31.   Few other states have considered legalizing gay unions.

32.   Five other states are considering similar regulations.

33.   For all their regulatory scrutiny, no states are considering bans of MLM, even though all of them ban pyramid schemes, Babener said.

34.   Forty-one other states have considered the issue in the last three years, but New York is the first to adopt a ban.

35.   Four other states are now considering doing the same thing and more might follow.

36.   For several months, Rowland had pushed for the state to do that by taking a step that no other state has considered.

37.   Hart said the state will consider a new license only when all proposed changes have been made and regulators have had time to see them in action.

38.   He and Stone got along quite well, Morrow says, a pleasant state of affairs considering the number of emotionally intense scenes they share.

39.   Hatch aside, many of the Republicans who control Congress are loath to raise taxes, especially as states also consider boosting taxes on tobacco.

40.   He said the state was considering the request but had not made a decision.