51.   Mills and his supporters have insisted that the state must set high expectations and that students will meet them.

52.   Montana abandoned its fixed speed limit last year, after President Clinton signed legislation that allowed states to set their own limits.

53.   Medicaid is financed jointly by the federal government and the states, and states set reimbursement levels.

54.   Most states set their own standards for high school athletes, but some states have left screening up to individual school districts or high school athletic associations.

55.   Neither practice is forbidden in Missouri or Kansas as long as insurers follow rules that the states set.

56.   New Hampshire law requires that the state set its primary date a week before any other state.

57.   Once the system is in place, individual states could set their own rates.

58.   Other states set much earlier deadlines, of two or three years, but even in those situations there have been exceptions to the deadlines.

59.   Other states set their own standards, in some cases more stringent than the FEC guidelines.

60.   Poor women particularly are restricted because federal law allows states to set limits on the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions.