1.  Arizona was the first state to use prepaid plans to provide all Medicaid coverage.

2.  Minnesota, the first state to institute statewide choice, was a different story altogether.

3.  The first state to offer residents free access to the Internet was Maryland.

4.  The first state to publicly debate the issue of competition in public education, Minnesota triggered the national debate about choice.

5.  It was the first state to frame a written constitution.

6.  The first state, called potential meaning, corresponds to the permanent meaning-capacity which a word or morpheme possesses before it is utilized in any particular situation.

7.  Although Maine was the first state to use this new equipment for the government-required testing, others are due to follow suit soon.

8.  Among the first states to get the bugs five years ago were New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington.

9.  And as the first states began to allow gambling, their neighbors moved quickly to join them in order to stanch the flow of revenue across state lines.

10.  And Oregon, becoming the first state in the nation to do away with polling places altogether, will conduct elections entirely by mail.