1.  Although hedge funds are popular with wealthy people and endowments, only a handful of large state or other public funds invest in them.

2.  And new polls in three large states, Texas, Florida and California, found Clinton comfortably ahead.

3.  Because so many large states have shifted their presidential primaries to early part of next year, candidates are under enormous pressure to raise a lot of money early.

4.  A group of governors of large states, including Wilson, have called for the party to soften its platform, which calls for a ban on abortion.

5.  A narrow win in a large state usually gives a candidate all of its electors, and this can overcome larger losses in several smaller states with fewer electors.

6.  A trade group of state regulators said that New York officials are handicapped by the weakest statutory authority of any large state.

7.  According to the study, the crime rate declined much more slowly in Texas than it did in other large states.

8.  After his return to Poland, he was made the director of a large state trading enterprise that imported Western goods.

9.  Alaska is a very large state with a small number of people, so many wildfires affect remote areas.

10.  Brazilian stocks rose, led by large state companies amid optimism interest rates will gradually decline this year, analysts said.