1.  Lazarus added the pullback in investing does not represent an anomaly but rather a return to a more traditional state of affairs following the dot-com boom.

2.  Not so fast, say some of the members of Congress who represent the traditional Great Lakes states.

3.  Nor is it out to impose a national exam or take over traditional state and local roles and responsibilities in education, no matter what its critics say.

4.  Explosive Hispanic growth was evident over the decade in traditional immigrant destinations like New York and Texas, as well as less traditional states like Iowa and Arkansas.

5.  In an unprecedented action, President Sixto Duran-Ballen walked out of a special session of Congress Thursday night without reading his traditional state of the nation address.

6.  In the traditional theocratic state, the selection of those successors often turned into a battle for political control.

7.  Nebraska, long known for its beef and corn industries, is becoming a mecca for dairy farmers being pushed out of traditional dairy states like California and Pennsylvania.

8.  The president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were afforded a traditional state welcoming in an airport hanger decked with huge American and Canadian flags.

9.  The Vietnamese installed a government of Khmer Rouge defectors who became the CPP, ruling as a traditional communist state.

10.  The Vietnamese installed a government of Khmer Rouge defectors who became the CPP, ruling Cambodia as a traditional communist state.