It defined itself in part as an "ecological" state, dedicated to preserving its natural environment -- the biggest draw for tourists.
In fact, the amount of acreage in the state dedicated to growing tomatoes has sharply decreased over the past decade -- from 4,800 acres in 1991 to 3,600 in 2001, according the state Agriculture Department.
In 2007 the state dedicated at the site a bronze statue of Roosevelt sitting on his removable car seat, wearing leg braces for polio, gazing at the wide, green valley.
But strong civil society groups have driven successes for disability rights campaigners over the past 15 years, says Pean. "The idea to have a secretary of state dedicated to people with disabilities came from civil society.
Your very balanced editorial (24 March) suggests that, on the whole, the people of Singapore are grateful to Lee Kuan Yew for a clean, intensely ordered state dedicated to economic growth in an American-style city of towers.
Before you unpack your folding chairs, fulfill your patriotic duty by visiting nearby Independence Hall, the historic location where the actual document was signed, and the Star of the Republic Museum, the only institution in the state dedicated to examining the 10-year period when Texas was a sovereign nation.
When Haley said that flying the Confederate flag is "a way to honor ancestors who came to the service of their state", that's not an idiotically ironic way of describing traitors who signed up for four years of treason at the behest of a would-be breakaway state dedicated to the preservation of slavery.
Carl von Clausewitz, in "On War," gave theoretical coherence to this new kind of warfare, and Prussia, in a series of sweeping military reforms, built an army and a powerful state dedicated to winning what General Smith calls interstate industrial war, epitomized in the two world wars of the 20th century.
When Schwarzenegger was elected Governor, suddenly he proclaimed the state dedicated to environmentalism. .
