31.  The demand for dollars south of the border could put upward pressure on interest rates just when the American states needed lower rates to kick-start economic growth.

32.  The political capitals of the largest American states, which control arts budgets of their own, are also distant from their cultural and intellectual capitals.

33.  There are no regional governments to vie for power with the central government in the way that American states do.

34.  They will have to qualify in the Mexican and American states where they do business.

35.  This town, this pub, though invisible to other Muggles, is actually in the American state of New Mexico, just outside a rather interesting little town.

36.  Those protections were established mostly to preserve political support in American states where textile mills still exist.

37.  Thus, countriness has been considered next to godliness in the American state of mind.

38.  Two of the biggest glaciers each exceeded the surface area of some American states.

39.  While several American states have passed laws banning same-sex marriages, Vermont last July started issuing licenses for civil unions, a step short of full marriage.

40.  Yet New Hampshire is hardly a representative American state.