Word: chapter
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...Massachusetts-Rhode Island chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) had hired Hyatt to mobilize volunteers collecting signatures on a referendum to change the state's wage laws...
This week the process of interest-rate deregulation that began six years ago completes its final chapter. The limit on the interest that financial institutions can pay for passbook savings accounts, which has been fixed at 5.5%, vanishes as of April 1. The change affects some 91 million accounts, which hold more than $300 billion...
This week's cover story on the Philippines' remarkable liberation from the autocratic rule of Ferdinand Marcos is only the latest chapter in TIME's decades-long coverage of the strategically located archipelago. As early as 1923 the magazine was writing about Filipino politicians and their determined agitation for independence from U.S. rule. In 1935 the U.S. granted the islands semiautonomous status, and TIME's cover story on Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, noted that in moving Manila toward eventual independence, the U.S. was being "far from purely benevolent": it would mean not only unloading...
...Graham said the Reagan Administrationshould make programs such as Head Start, an earlykindergarden program, and Chapter One, aneducation program for underprivileged children,financial priorities...
...Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan has worked for a negotiated settlement of the explosive Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, drained after months of unsuccessful efforts to enlist Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, into the peace process, Hussein announced that he had reached "an end to another chapter in the search for peace...