41.  With legislative approval, Arizona would join Iowa as only the second state to scrap the uniform pay scale, although others are exploring the idea.

42.  Arizona is the second state to mail such birthday cards, state officials said.

43.  But Texas, the second most populous state, leads them all in executions.

44.  But the same exit polls said that a rare opposition alliance had toppled the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in the second state holding elections, Nayarit.

45.  Chihuahua is the second Mexican state ever to elect an opposition party governor, after Baja California.

46.  Earlier this month, Yeltsin announced he might merge Ostankino with the second nationwide state broadcasting company, the Russian Television and Radio Company.

47.  Florida would be the second American state to open an office in Vietnam after Oklahoma.

48.  He rolled around the second smallest state on a bus tour, saying the McCain victory in New Hampshire proved there would be no coronation of Bush.

49.  Jordan, the second Arab state after Egypt to forge peace with Israel, is an important ally of the West in the Middle East.

50.  Lawmakers have moved to make Mississippi the second state in the nation with a law banning homosexual couples from adopting children.