31.   The heightened scrutiny and controversy surrounding capital punishment prompted action in many states this year.

32.   The key battleground states this year are New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and California, according to Weber.

33.   The magazine runs about half a dozen such special issues with supplements on cities or states each year.

34.   The monarch butterfly, the state insect of Texas, will be flitting through the state this year in numbers not seen in the past quarter-century.

35.   The state each year makes a large payment of aid to school districts in early June.

36.   The state this year passed a law that makes it easier to carry a concealed handgun.

37.   The Republican legislation would set rigid ceilings on the federal money that the program would make available to the states each year.

38.   They voted Congress out in several states this year, including here in Maharashtra, where Bombay is the state capital.

39.   We can expect to witness an orgy of killing by states this year.

40.   All told, the proposals are the most drastic of the tax-cutting measures on ballots in more than half a dozen states this year.