Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine of $50; when a man throws a billboard across a view, he is liable to be richly rewarded"-and at least a moratorium on capital punishment. Declared the determined Brown: "I intend to invite disagreement, not for its own sake, but for the health of our commonwealth. I am concerned not about personal prestige but about public progress...
...range is from Greece to China and modern Russia. Every two weeks, the kids hand in independent research reports. One work sheet asked seventh-graders to analyze the significance of Adam Smith. Robert Walpole, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, the Bill of Rights, the British Cabinet system, and the Commonwealth of Nations. Sixth-graders had to discuss Hernando Cortes, Pancho Villa...
...discovering the validity of this old truism. Three years ago, when Jamaica launched a boycott of South African goods which was eventually joined by 17 other African, Asian and West Indian countries, South Africa's exporters were badly worried. A year later, after South Africa left the Commonwealth in high dudgeon, foreign investors began to pull capital out of the country at such a rate that foreign reserves sank to an anemic $15 million, and the government was forced to apply stringent currency control...
Using Rothman as a base, Rupert began setting up subsidiaries throughout the Commonwealth. His shrewdest move came in 1958. Capitalizing on a peculiar stock arrangement in London's venerable Carreras Tobacco Co. (Craven A), he won control of the company for only $4,500,000, quickly sold off antiquated factories for $15 million to finance a modernization program...
Anguish at Success. Hallstein's community was certainly maturing fast. All around the world, nations that laughed when the Common Market countries sat down to play at six-handed free trading are now envious of the remarkable economic progress the Six have made. Looking on nervously are the Commonwealth countries and the members of Europe's "Outer Seven," whose future relations with the Common Market depend upon the outcome of Britain's painful negotiations with the Six. And a dozen other countries, most of which have no prospect of ever joining the Common Market, regard the market...