At the same time, the natural resources council released a report stating that the fast-growing state faced alarming environmental degradation.

The fast-growing states share one similar characteristic: a romantic frontierlike quality.

Ten candidates are battling to represent the district in Arizona, a fast-growing state that is not as conservative as it used to be.

Acceptance would end his career in the fast-growing state of Illinois, so he declined.

It was a promise the prosperous fast-growing state seldom had much trouble fulfilling.

Arizona is a fast-growing state with a rapidly increasing Hispanic population.

Democrats are divided on the proposal, with officials from fast-growing states particularly wary.

Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency.

Still, Arizona is a fast-growing state and the bank has made it through previous real estate downturns.

But this issue, more than most, affects the daily lives of families, and highlights the deeply divided character of a fast-growing state.