Word: centrally
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...American Constitution reserved to the states all rights not specifically granted to the Federal Government; yet the reality of union created strong central rule. In Canada, the reverse was the case: the Constitution reserved to the Federal Government all powers not specifically granted to the provinces; yet the reality of disunity created a weak central regime from the start. The most threatening aspect of this disunity was the conflict between French-and English-speaking Canadians. In 1838 Lord Durham came from London following a series of minor rebellions and reported back: "I expected to find a conflict between a government...
Struggling with his controls, Komarov apparently tried to abort his mission on both the 16th and 17th revolutions, which took him close to his planned landing site in central Russia. But Soyuz was probably still tumbling, and Komarov could not use his retrorockets. Unless an orbiting spacecraft is stabilized and properly oriented when the retrorockets are fired, it can shoot farther into space or re-enter the atmosphere improperly and burn...
...Interstate Commerce Commission approved the historic merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central last year, only to see it tangled in legal challenges. Last week-a year later to the day-the ICC bestowed its blessing on a rail merger that it hopes will be consummated with minimum delay. Highballed to join on June 1 were the Chicago and North Western and the smaller Chicago Great Western, whose get-together could save the two lines $6,000,000 a year...
...finance expanding world trade and keep free-world economies prosperous. In the past two years, there has been no growth of world money reserves needed for those functions. Last year, for the first time in modern history, the store of gold in the free world's central banks actually dwindled (by $100 million), as private hoarders bought huge quantities of the metal. Dollars, the second major source of world monetary reserves since World War II, provided no offsetting lift because France turned in its own dollars for gold faster than other nations added dollars to their reserves. World trade...
There is no central authority in boxing, but the other commissions followed suit right away, right on cue. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended Clay's license indefinitely, pending the outcome of the legal case, which may not be decided for another two years. The European commissions did the same...