Another motivator is Florida's success at using financial incentives to lure major biomedical research centers, such as California's Scripps Research Institute, to establish outposts in the state.
It was way back in 1995 – a year which featured the presumably unrelated occurrences of Merril Bainbridge's 'Mouth' hitting the charts and Nick Kyrgios being born – when the Cowboys joined the national competition as a northern outpost in the great state of Queensland.
One reason Tal Afar was important for the government to hold was that the city was the state's only outpost in the entire province of Nineveh, which fell to the Sunni militants last week as the army collapsed.
The keen national interest in Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, is not shared in this outpost of the state.
Today they head an organization with 1996 revenues of $2 billion, an outpost in every state of the union and 500,000 worker bees.
Recently he moved into a state-of-the-art new building in Lamont, Columbia's verdant outpost in New York state.
Two dozen Dinka officials were massacred by White Army men, along with two Indian UN peacekeepers, on December 19th in Akobo, a remote outpost in Jonglei state.
Er, they were sent to make another album in Fredonia, a remote outpost in New York state, where they were shot at by hunters, attacked by wild dogs (plenty of meat of those gig-toned thighs) and went so mad that Jacques threatened to quit and go back to music school.
They ruled that a state's jurisdiction was "essentially territorial" but, in certain exceptions, extended "to outposts of the state's authority abroad", such as embassies and consulates.
