Others speculate that governors will just walk rather than deal with the continued expense and political headaches.

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Spending last year on housing, the biggest expense for most Americans, continued to rise, but shrank as a proportion of overall spending for the first time in three years.

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But even as that century unfolded and adventurous artists increasingly emphasized the direct and the truthful at the expense of the ideal, others continued to make studies from nature only as preparation for carefully constructed studio paintings.

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