81.   States have long tried to attract new businesses with tax breaks, grants and low-interest loans.

82.   State welfare spending could soar as the state tries to fulfill its promise to support people who seek to find work and fail.

83.   Still, most states already are trying some form of welfare overhaul.

84.   Some states are also trying to smooth the transition.

85.   Symington said his sole caveat was that he would renew the effort if some other state tried to replace New Hampshire.

86.   That has not prevented businesses from imagining a day when states try to tax Internet use.

87.   That is the gap some states are trying to fill.

88.   The court acknowledges that equivalent infusions of cash do not produce equivalent education, but it properly asserts that the state must try nonetheless.

89.   The economy is buoyant, home prices are rising, and the state is trying to figure out how to spend its budget surplus.

90.   The French state has been trying to bring the two companies together to build critical mass within the French aerospace industry.