11.  If it does, Texas will become the second state in which a Bell company is allowed to offer long-distance service, after Bell Atlantic in New York.

12.  If the trend in early returns holds, Washington will become the second state in the nation after California to abolish government-sponsored preference programs.

13.  If Texas adopted the program, it would be only the second state in the nation to ban social promotions statewide on the basis of a test.

14.  In mid-May, Arizona became the second state in the nation to institute the practice.

15.  It has supplanted New York as the second most populous state.

16.  It was the second state to do so, after Maryland.

17.  Liberal is a label that seems no more popular in Washington, the second most populous state in the West, than elsewhere in the nation.

18.  Massachusetts would be the second state to sell all its tobacco stocks.

19.  Massachusetts, in March, will become the second state to deregulate its electric utility industry.

20.  Maryland is the second state to announce a moratorium on executions.